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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:40:26 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: whether the thread   is implemented in the kernel ?
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 isp01ljl@taurus.zsu.edu.cn wrote:

>     I encountered a interesting problem , that is whether the thread
>  is implemented in the kernel ?  if yes , then what is the system
>  call to generate a thread ?  is it similar to fork() ?

clone(2), which is the exact same code path as fork().

For more information, see
	man 2 clone
	kernel/fork.c::do_fork()

regards,

Rik
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