Re: Thread_Id

[Robert Hancock]

RVK wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:36 +0530, RVK wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> > > bits/pthreadtypes.h:150:typedef unsigned long int pthread_t;
> > >   
> >
> >
> > That's an implementation detail which you cannot determine any
> > information from.
> >
> > What Arjan is saying is that pthread_t is a cookie -- this means that
> > you cannot interpret it in any way, it is just a "thing" which you can
> > pass back to the API, that pthread_t happens to be typedef'd to unsigned
> > long int is irrelevant.
> >
> >  
> Do you want to say for both 2.6.x and 2.4.x I should interpret that way ?
>
> rvk

Indeed, for ANY OS using pthreads it should be interpreted that way..
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