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From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] processes with shared vm
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:39:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43080000.998059142@baldur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108171428450.21522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108171428450.21522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcm aster.ca>

--On Friday, August 17, 2001 14:30:28 +0000 Mark Hahn 
<hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> from a quick glance, there is no tgid, and deliberately so:
> proc.thread_group is a list of siblings, no?  siblings that
> normally share their struct mm.

There is in fact a tgid in the task_struct.  Its value is the pid of the 
task that first called clone() with CLONE_THREAD set.  And in fact the 
getpid() system call actually returns tgid instead of pid.  It seems to me 
only reasonable to include this in the information available via /proc.

Dave McCracken

======================================================================
Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059


       reply	other threads:[~2001-08-17 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108171428450.21522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108171428450.21522-100000@coffee.psychology.mcm aster.ca>
2001-08-17 14:39   ` Dave McCracken [this message]
     [not found] <997973469.7632.10.camel@pc-16.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-08-17  8:21 ` [PATCH] processes with shared vm Andi Kleen
2001-08-17  8:31   ` Robert Love
2001-08-17  8:46   ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-17 14:26     ` Dave McCracken
2001-08-17 20:55       ` Andi Kleen
2001-08-17 21:15         ` Dave McCracken
2001-08-18 13:29           ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-31 23:53           ` Mike Touloumtzis
2001-08-17  7:50 Terje Eggestad
2001-08-17  7:56 ` Robert Love
2001-08-17  8:04   ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-17  8:08     ` Robert Love
2001-08-17  8:15       ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-17 12:26         ` michael
2001-08-18 14:15           ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-19  6:24             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-08-19 12:23               ` Terje Eggestad
2001-08-19 23:25                 ` Albert D. Cahalan

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