Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Processes with hidden PID files in /proc | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:21:48 +0100 |
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In article <20061213180801.A16952@yoda.lmcg.wisc.edu> you wrote: > I've Googled on this enough to find out that these are Linux threads, > that "ps -m" will show them, that "ls -a /proc" will show /proc/.PPID, > etc, but I'm still wondering what exact sequence of system calls will > create a process like this?
clone(2) can be used to create a thread in a new thread group. If that thread forks, the resulting child has the (invisible) thread group as parent pid.
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