threading question
gja
meowing at banet.net
Wed Jul 28 01:16:45 EDT 1999
Charles G Waldman wrote:
> When I run the trivial example attached below, which simply
> starts a daemon thread that does nothing, and then type "ps",
> I see *three* python processes. I can understand two, but
> why three?
> Platform is Linux 2.2.10 with the most recent glibc (2.1.1),
> if that matters.
What you're seeing is a quirk of the Linux threading
implementation. The extra process slot is used by the
threading library itself, to keep tabs on all your "real"
threads.
For a more details, see
<URL:http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/faq.html>
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