Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:58:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: proc fs and shared pids |
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Michiel Boland wrote: > > > > How is the proc FS going to handle tasks that share the same PID? > > Badly. > > Linus > > (Seriously, the CLONE_PID option needs to be cleaned up a bit, and I > suspect I'll make a 16-bit "thread ID" in the high bits of the pid or > something like that) > Hmm, we could have something like PID:TID, where TID is 0 for all "normal" processes, and for the first thread (hmm, procfs could omit it for TID=0). It'll also assumed to be 0 if it's not given in a syscall (or if done right, it'll be implied as 0 from what you say at the end of your mail).
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