From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: rvk@prodmail.net
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Thread_Id
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:16:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121339809.10537.6.camel@icampbell-debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D6462B.8030706@prodmail.net>
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:32 +0530, RVK wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> >What Arjan is saying is that pthread_t is a cookie -- this means that
> >you cannot interpret it in any way, it is just a "thing" which you can
> >pass back to the API, that pthread_t happens to be typedef'd to unsigned
> >long int is irrelevant.
> Do you want to say for both 2.6.x and 2.4.x I should interpret that way ?
As I understand it, yes, you should never try and assign any meaning to
the values. The fact that you may have been able to find some apparent
meaning under 2.4 is just a coincidence.
Ian.
--
Ian Campbell
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <4mUJ1-5ZG-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-06 2:47 ` Thread_Id Robert Hancock
2005-07-14 5:33 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 7:45 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 10:06 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 10:30 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 11:20 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 12:25 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 12:39 ` Thread_Id Jakub Jelinek
2005-07-14 13:08 ` Thread_Id Benedikt Spranger
2005-07-14 13:49 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 10:39 ` Thread_Id Ian Campbell
2005-07-14 11:02 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 11:16 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2005-07-14 11:24 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 23:02 ` Thread_Id J.A. Magallon
2005-07-15 6:09 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-15 6:18 ` Thread_Id Ian Campbell
2005-07-14 14:28 ` Thread_Id Robert Hancock
2005-07-23 15:02 [PATCH] quieten OOM killer noise Anton Blanchard
2005-07-05 12:15 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-05 12:55 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07 12:43 ` Thread_Id Benedikt Spranger
2005-07-14 5:31 ` Thread_Id RVK
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