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From: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: jorge_ortiz@hp.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Process vs. Threads
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:01:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA517DB.A5963C9F@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)

jorge_ortiz@hp.com wrote:
> I have been trying to differenciate threads and process in Linux. As 
> I am sure you already know, other OS, namely HPUX, implement threads 
> in a different way. ...
> Of course, I am talking about kernel 2.2.x, but AFAIK this has not 
> changed in the new kernels.

It's starting to change a bit; see the discussion following
  http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week36/0903.html
  ("thread group comments").

Can someone summarize the state of the thread changes in 2.4?  
A lot seemed to happen, but from what I gather, nothing user-visible yet.

- Dan

             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-06 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-06 17:01 Dan Kegel [this message]
2001-03-06 17:32 ` Process vs. Threads Ulf Carlsson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-08  0:17 Hank Leininger
2001-03-09  9:48 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-06 16:28 Jorge David Ortiz Fuentes
2001-03-06 16:58 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-03-07  9:01   ` Helge Hafting
2001-03-07 23:30     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-08  3:09     ` David Schwartz

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