Re: Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:58:34PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. The lack of an address space seems to make them rather different too. A process contains address space, and one or more threads. A thread is hence a component of a process, but

Re: Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:58 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > >>No, a process also contains an address space. > Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. Not really. A process has one or more threads, (virtual) memory, open file descriptors, a uid, a gid and several other resources.

Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, please do _NOT_ top post! sorry No, a process also contains an address space. Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. No, that is creating a schedule unit (task) without an address space. Ok, I've already found that in kernel code ... and correctly understood. Surely you

Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, please do _NOT_ top post! sorry No, a process also contains an address space. Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. No, that is creating a schedule unit (task) without an address space. Ok, I've already found that in kernel code ... and correctly understood. Surely you

Re: Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:58 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] No, a process also contains an address space. Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. Not really. A process has one or more threads, (virtual) memory, open file descriptors, a uid, a gid and several other resources.

Re: Fwd: NPTL

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:58:34PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course .. I ment they are _almoust_ similar. The lack of an address space seems to make them rather different too. A process contains address space, and one or more threads. A thread is hence a component of a process, but