Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:08:07 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Thread Questions |
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > You could enhance a file /proc/<pid>/stat (or some other, or invent > > a new one) to export a VM cookie (sorry, working with Mark made the > > word "cookie" my favourite one and I can't think of a better :) > > which is nothing other than a current->mm value, i.e. a kernel > > virtual address. Then you can easily detect CLONE_VM threads. > > Note that this isn't a proper way to detect threads.
I wasn't suggesting it as generic way of detecting threads. He wanted to detect CLONE_VM threads and the above method does work for them.
Regards, Tigran
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