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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:39 +0530, RVK wrote:
> Understood on pid/tid and thread identifier diffrentiation. The question=20
> now is why pthread_t is typedef as unsigned long ?

It's just an arbitrary type that is big enough to contain the cookie.

Ian.
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Ian Campbell

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