Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:39:02 -0500 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] processes with shared vm |
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--On Friday, August 17, 2001 14:30:28 +0000 Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> from a quick glance, there is no tgid, and deliberately so: > proc.thread_group is a list of siblings, no? siblings that > normally share their struct mm.
There is in fact a tgid in the task_struct. Its value is the pid of the task that first called clone() with CLONE_THREAD set. And in fact the getpid() system call actually returns tgid instead of pid. It seems to me only reasonable to include this in the information available via /proc.
Dave McCracken
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