Re: pthread - lwp - process

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:59:51 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.help
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:58:12PM +0530, aalu paneer wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Can someone help me understand in broad overview the similarity and
> difference between the following in context of NetBSD:
> 
> 1. Thread created using pthread_create()
> 2. LWP
> 3. Process
> 
> I am trying to understand thread and lwp support in NetBSD. Any
> related information is welcome!

I'm not sure there's much differences betweel threads and LWP. 
What we call LWP is a thread in NetBSD.
A process is running program. 2 processes don't share the same
address space, unlike threads. A process can have several threads.

You may want to have a look at fork and pthread manual pages.

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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