Re: Which function returns LWP in Linux.
From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Date: Mon May 17 2010 - 03:33:19 EST
Hello KOSAKI-san,
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:33 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For a process, we have different PIDs. For threads under a single
>> processes, we have different LWP id, but same PID in Linux.
>> ex.
>>
>> root@pc:/home/srinivas# ps -eLf
>> UID PID PPID LWP C STIME TIME CMD
>> root 100 1 100 0 May13 00:00:02 ./a.out
>> root 100 1 102 0 May13 00:00:00 ./a.out
>>
>> getpid() function returns PID of a process.
>> Which function retuns LWP id for thread?
>
> gettid()
>
gettid() is linux specific and not supported in glibc. Normally
application do not use gettid(), even procps is not using it, that why
I suggested Srinivas to check procps source to find the best solution
for it.
Thanks,
--
Jaswinder Singh.
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