Re: Tasking_Error

[anders@legolas.gidenstam.org (Anders Gidenstam)]

In article <ullzee9hc.fsf@wanadoo.fr>,
	Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> "James S. Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> 
>> I believe that Linux implements tasks as user processes.
> 
> No it uses threads.

Yes, but threads on Linux are implemented as processes sharing the same
address space. (More or less, it depends somewhat on what you read
into the concept "process", but at least each thread has its own entry
in the process table.)

See the (Linux) manual page for clone(2) for more info.

/Anders
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