On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 13:15:23 +0530, aksingh@hss.hns.com wrote: > i read that already, there the programmer has used his own functions to > create threads and all, i just wanted to know if kernel threads are > standard features and if kernel provides some functions to create, destroy > them, because I never came across them in linux till now. I dont think > drivers create different threads, correct ? Kernel threads are created, surprisingly, with a function kernel_thread(). Then they need to call daemonize() to fully get rid of their userland and reparent to init, because they are created by cloning whatever process happens to be current. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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