In the last episode (Jun 03), Václav Haisman said:
> is it possible to obtain some sort of a thread ID that identifies a thread
> within a process other than pthread_self()? Something like gettid() on
> Linux? Apparently, on FreeBSD the pthread_t is a pointer type and does
> not identify the thread well enough. GDB on FreeBSD seems to know about
> threads and does not seem to use the same ID as is pthread_t.
The return value of pthread_self() is a pointer to the (private) "struct
pthread" for the current thread, and should uniquely identify a thread. Do
you have a testcase that shows otherwise? GDB might just enumerate the
currently active threads starting from 1.
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Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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