Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
You must be running Linux, the choice of a GNUtered generation. You're seeing all of the threads running. Linux made the dumb-ass choice of a process ID per thread.
Without going into off-topic details, I'll just say that this is the result of a design decision that is not obviously wrong (at least to me) and has some neat consequences. It does make layering the pthreads API on top of it a bit tricky.
It's normal.
Yup. Can we not flame other people's operating system choices on this list? It would have been quite possible for you to make the above point without the snideness. This list is one of the friendliest I've seen--let's keep it that way. -Doug -- Doug McNaught doug@mcnaught.org http://www.mcnaught.org/~doug