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You are right Ben....gettid() will do for me. Previously for 2.4.x 
(2.4.18)thread libraries I normally was using pthread_self().

Raghu

Benedikt Spranger wrote:

>Hi,
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>>Can anyone suggest me how to get the threadId using 2.6.x kernels.
>>pthread_self() does not work and returns some -ve integer.
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>Let me guess: You are looking for get_tid() :-)
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>Bene
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