[ale] differentiating processes from threads

[Tommie M. Jones]

Like Danny said, the way threads are implemented in Linux is not a true
threading model we've seen in other unicies.  It's just another process.
So I guess the thread library just acts as a wrapper around fork and some
other ipc calls.

So with this in mind you could just look for processes that have the same
executable name as its parent process.

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, John Wells wrote:

> Awhile back I sent out a message regarding mozilla's apparent spawning of
> multiple processes with large memory footprints.  Someone corrected me,
> stating that these were actually threads using shared memory and were just
> reported by top and ps -ef as seperate processes.  They forwarded a ps
> string that returned some obscure indication of the fact that they were
> threads.
>
> I find myself in a situation where I need to be able to differentiate
> processes from threads.  Can anyone help me out?  The previously mentioned
> ps string would do, but I wonder what other ways exist?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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