On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:50, Seth Arnold wrote: > I don't know if the NPTL-ized 2.5 (or some vendor 2.4 kernels) have an > internal difference between threads or tasks or not. I would expect it > to retain the traditional Linux model, though. :) There is a much clearer notion of "threads" in 2.5, but they are still pretty much the same as processes. Each thread still has a unique task_struct as its process descriptor, for example. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
