In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > What you're supposed to do with pthreads in general is use pthread_self(). : : Unfortunately, AFAIK the opaque handle that pthread_self() returns is : not quite meaningless outside of the process whereas what the non : standard gettid() returns can actually be used to identify a thread from : "outside" the process, like the shell.
gettid() is also non-standard. If you want to interact with a thread, you gotta use pthread_self() if you want your code to be portable. Warner