> > 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. > > I'm not sure, but I think that (at least on i386) each process has it's own > address space, process - yes. thread - no. this is, what we are talking about.
> and because of virtual addressing this space can have the > same address as that found in completely separate processes. yep. and threads belonging together in fact use the same memory, not only the same memory layout. the processes/threads are distinguished by their controlling structures, not memory they actually see. > Maybe someone with more hardware knowledge could clear this up? i'm your man! :) a bit confusing, but i don't want to spend more time explaining it. :-) 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/
