Re: Thread_Id

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 11:03 +0530, RVK wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
> > RVK wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone suggest me how to get the threadId using 2.6.x kernels.
> >> pthread_self() does not work and returns some -ve integer.
> >
> >
> > What do you mean, negative integer? It's not an integer, it's a
> > pthread_t, you're not even supposed to look at it..
> 
> What is pthread_t inturn defined to ? pthread_self for 2.4.x thread 
> libraries return +ve number(as u have a objection me calling it as 
> integer :-))

it doesn't return a number it returns a pointer ;) or a floating point
number. You don't know :)

what it returns is a *cookie*. A cookie that you can only use to pass
back to various pthread functions.