From: "pradeep singh" <2500.pradeep@gmail.com>
To: Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Threading in linux
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:33:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <366312910704240003o1a003641v16558d7f17afffe6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7783925d0704232338h52bc1180i435a880b267ca0f3@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/24/07, Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I read that the kernel does not differentiate between threads and
> processes. That means, we can say that on a Linux system, the
> threading is purely provided by user level thread libraries, right?
>
> So as long as relevant system calls do not change, it should be
> possible to run any threading library on any kernel? NPTL on 2.4?
> pthreads on 2.6?
Yes, looks to me.
HTH
~psr
>
> Rick
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-24 6:38 Threading in linux Rick Brown
2007-04-24 7:03 ` pradeep singh [this message]
2007-04-24 7:17 ` Amol Lad
2007-04-24 8:29 ` Rick Brown
2007-04-24 9:54 ` Erik Mouw
2007-04-24 10:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-24 10:36 ` Rick Brown
2007-04-24 10:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-25 0:48 ` John Aspinall
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