Re: same pid ?

2011/2/11 Steve Graegert () <[email protected]>:
> POSIX.1 requires threads to share a couple of attributes (mainly
> process attributes) like the process ID, open FDs and many others.
> What you are referring to ("everything as task") is the fact that each
> thread is associated with a single scheduling entity within the kernel
> implementing a 1:1 mapping.  Yet, threads created within the same
> process share a single PID.
>

Thanks steve.

I found some more info. posix thread uses CLONE_THREAD with clone()
system call.
i quoted from - man clone

CLONE_THREAD (since Linux 2.4.0-test8)
    If CLONE_THREAD is set, the child is placed in the same thread
group as the calling process. To make the remainder of the discussion
of CLONE_THREAD more readable, the term "thread" is used to refer to
the processes within a thread group.

    Thread groups were a feature added in Linux 2.4 to support the
POSIX threads notion of a set of threads that share a single PID.
Internally, this shared PID is the so-called thread group identifier
(TGID) for the thread group. Since Linux 2.4, calls to getpid(2)
return the TGID of the caller.

-Ratheesh



> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:18, ratheesh k <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Jonathan Isom <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Newer distros use Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL).  They return the same pid.
>>
>> if linux treats every thing as task (both thread and process ) and
>> CLONE_PID flag is obsolete, i expected unique pid.
>

> You are advised to consult pthreads(7) to make yourself familiar with the topic.
>
> Steve
>