Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:39:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: threaded processes Message-ID: <20040518143935.GA4925@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040518105609.GA50600@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <BAY14-F40AgjHXwKHvy000578e0@hotmail.com> <20040518105609.GA50600@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In the last episode (May 18), Kris Kennaway said: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:04:01AM +0000, john doe wrote: > > how can you view process threads on freebsd 4.9? There appears to > > be no option in ps,top or something in /usr/ports. > > Under 4.x threading is done in userland, so it is invisible to the > kernel. Under 5.x the default is to use kernel-supported threads, > which are visible to ps, top, et al. If you're really curious, the pstack command in ports will show all the threads in a process on 4.x (and 5.x if you use libc_r). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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