On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:58:46PM +0530, chandrashekar mogilicherla wrote: > Iam using fedora core 2.6.11 kernel on mips machine , Interesting, I wonder where you got that Fedora port from? > "process is getting created when i try to create thread using pthread > library." > > Can anybody explain what is happening out there On a kernel level thread and process are almost identical things which is why they look the same in ps output. The fine differences are more special properties such as a having a private address space. Ralf