Python Threads on Linux

[Galen Swint]

On Jul 31, 11:04am, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> Correct; Linux threads have different PIDs because of how the kernel
> treats them.  The fork() system call which creates a new process is
> essentially a special case of the clone() system call that creates a
> new thread, but that distinction doesn't matter to a Python
> programmer.
Didn't IBM just release a new (optional) threads package for Linux that
implements true lightweight threads? I think it was called ngthreads or
something like that. I remember seeing a post about it in /. but never really
got to look into it.
Galen


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