On Tuesday 15 January 2002 3:00 am, Michael Zhu wrote: > Hi, does Linux have the concept of thread? Yes; that's how it does scheduling. > How can I > create a thread in my application? I can use the > fork() to create a process. Is there any API to create > a thread? There's a syscall, clone(), which creates a new thread. The argument determines what (if anything) is shared with the parent thread - file descriptors, memory map, etc. Share nothing, and you have fork(); share everything, you have a thread. Somewhere in between could be useful for some things, too. > I know in kernel mode kernel_thread() can be > used to create a thread in kernel mode. What is that > in user mode? clone(). Or the relevant pthread library calls, if that's the API you want. James. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
