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Kernel threads
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 12:00 am
by Thomas
A not too smart question (as always...
Kernel threads - how should they be implemented, as normal user level tasks with high privileges, kernel level tasks or what ?
RE:Kernel threads
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 12:00 am
by ATG
>On 2001-03-21 14:53:21, Thomas wrote:
>A not too smart question (as always...
Kernel
threads - how should they be implemented, as
normal user level tasks with high privileges,
kernel level tasks or what ?
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Well, the nature of the thread is that it is a
"sub-task".
It is simply a second stack and state that operates
within the same "context". It has the same PID/Files/memory
as other threads...
The low level details of this are quite ugly on the
x86...