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Re: Threads in Linux.

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:50, Seth Arnold wrote:

> I don't know if the NPTL-ized 2.5 (or some vendor 2.4 kernels) have an
> internal difference between threads or tasks or not. I would expect it
> to retain the traditional Linux model, though. :)

There is a much clearer notion of "threads" in 2.5, but they are still
pretty much the same as processes.  Each thread still has a unique
task_struct as its process descriptor, for example.

	Robert Love

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