On Friday 19 August 2005 18:46, Jan Hudec wrote: > I believe it's actually the initial task, that is turned into the thread > manager. So it'd really be: > > 100 (the thread manager) > +-------+---+---+-------+ > | | | | > 101 102 103 104 > > Where the first thread_create, invoked from task 100, actually returns to > task 101 and 102 is set to execute the function passed to task_create. > > Because IIRC the "initial task" is required to be equal to all the other > threads created. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> > Now, I don't know if things are changed in kernel 2.6, but till the kernel 2.4.29 a thread manager is created between 100 and the threads created by 100. The thread manager have pid 101 and the other threads respectively, 102, 103, 104. If you execute "ps -Al" in a terminal, you have something like the following: pid ppid 100 XXX 101 100 102 101 103 101 104 101 But I suggest Tom David googling on thread manager to better understand if I'm right or not. I remember I've read such informations about threads on a downloaded documents founded on the Web, but I don't remember where it was. Vincenzo Mallozzi. P.S. I'm sorry for the last email in which I've not well aligned simbols " | " and " / " to show the parenthood of threads. ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.beta.messenger.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
