Re: Thread_Id

RVK
2005-07-14T11:05:28Z

Ian Campbell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:36 +0530, RVK wrote:
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>>bits/pthreadtypes.h:150:typedef unsigned long int pthread_t;
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>That's an implementation detail which you cannot determine any
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>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.
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Do you want to say for both 2.6.x and 2.4.x I should interpret that way ?

rvk

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