From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: rvk@prodmail.net
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Thread_Id
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:28:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D67685.1040401@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D6462B.8030706@prodmail.net>
RVK wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:36 +0530, RVK wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> bits/pthreadtypes.h:150:typedef unsigned long int pthread_t;
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's an implementation detail which you cannot determine any
>> information from.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
> Do you want to say for both 2.6.x and 2.4.x I should interpret that way ?
>
> rvk
Indeed, for ANY OS using pthreads it should be interpreted that way..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-14 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <4mUJ1-5ZG-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-06 2:47 ` Thread_Id Robert Hancock
2005-07-14 5:33 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 7:45 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 10:06 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 10:30 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 11:20 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 12:25 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-14 12:39 ` Thread_Id Jakub Jelinek
2005-07-14 13:08 ` Thread_Id Benedikt Spranger
2005-07-14 13:49 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 10:39 ` Thread_Id Ian Campbell
2005-07-14 11:02 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 11:16 ` Thread_Id Ian Campbell
2005-07-14 11:24 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-14 23:02 ` Thread_Id J.A. Magallon
2005-07-15 6:09 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-15 6:18 ` Thread_Id Ian Campbell
2005-07-14 14:28 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-07-23 15:02 [PATCH] quieten OOM killer noise Anton Blanchard
2005-07-05 12:15 ` Thread_Id RVK
2005-07-05 12:55 ` Thread_Id Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07 12:43 ` Thread_Id Benedikt Spranger
2005-07-14 5:31 ` Thread_Id RVK
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