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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Process vs. Threads
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:01:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA5F8E1.AC570516@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010306172843.D1283@hpspss3g.spain.hp.com> <20010306115822.A2244@xi.linuxpower.cx>

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> 
> There are no threads in Linux.
> All tasks are processes.
> Processes can share any or none of a vast set of resources.
> 
Is there a way a user program can find out what resources 
are shared among which processes? 

That would allow enhancing ps, top, etc to
report memory usage correctly.

Helge Hafting

  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-07  9:04 UTC|newest]

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

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