Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ddb db_ps.c src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_exit.c kern_fork.c kern_resource.c kern_sig.c sys_generic.c src/sys/platform/pc32/i386 pmap.c src/sys/platform/vkernel/platform pmap.c src/sys/sys proc.h tree.h src/sys/vm vm_vmspace.c

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I'm a bit confused.  TIDs are (and have to be) user visible.  After all,
>     how else do you signal a LWP?

You don't, only the threading library does (why would you as user signal a thread?).  And the threading lib knows which thread is dead and which one is alive (it actually even presents different pthread_thread_id than the lwp_id to the user program).

cheers
 simon

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