On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Timur Aydin <t...@taydin.org> wrote: > On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. >> >> http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 >> > > Hello Mark, > > Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book > is talking about linuxthreads by Xavier Leroy, not nptl. I am well aware > that linuxthreads uses LWP's to implement threads and as a result, each > thread has a separate, unique pid. > > I did a few more tests using gdb and my simple app. I am seeing the > SIG32 signal and the lack of the manager threads. So everything hints > that I am indeed using nptl, but the separate process id's still doesn't > make sense...
I'm a little late to the conversation...but is there an NPTL-directed sample program somewhere you can use as a baseline? i.e., to be able to say, "if this works, I know NPTL does, and I know what an NPTL program looks like at the system level." -- :wq
