On Thu 12 June 2003 21:18, Karthik M wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I observed that the various kernel deamons like > khubd,kjournald, etc., that are running on the system > have process ids greater than 100. As far as i have > understood it these kernel_threads are invoked from > functions inside init/main.c. The thing i would like > to know is how the PID's are assigned to these > kernel_threads. I understand that kernel_thread > invokes sys_clone() syscall. > > Some of the kernel_threads have PID's less than 10, > which is quiet understandable as the PID 1 is reserved > for the init process, but some of them have PID's > > 100 which is confusion. > > Any clarification would be helpful. in kernel/fork.c: function do_fork: ..... p->pid = get_pid(clone_flags) ..... look at here hope this help. Daniele. PGP PKEY http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=belch76@libero.it&op=index ICQ# 104896040 Netphone/Fax 178.605.7063 Homepage http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
