> Right, so it's not a bug in my top-like program, just a bug in the > kernel :-) > some people really think this way. but linus insists on doing it his way - and he is right. :-)
> Mind you, if the memory space is always identical (surely position > as well as size) > then why is it difficult to find shared threads? Very naïve of me > I know, but surely > you don't need to go too deep into the system to find the base > address of a process. > of course, it is very simple to find it out - at system level. the process descriptors point to the same mm structure, so everything is clear. the problem is the user space. i don't know, if there is any interfaces which makes this internal memory manager information public to the user space. but even if it exists, then the user-space program would have to actively use it (in that case you were right - it could be called buggy (or at least out of date) if it did not use the interface. regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster - join http://www.distributed.net/
