Questions tagged [lightweight-processes]

Linux lightweight processes share the same memory descriptor as referred here. This includes all the segments including text, data, heap, stack. I wanted to how this shared stack segment is managed for more than one execution context by the kernel.…

From my understanding on the many-to-one model, all user threads are bound to a LWP which is then bound to a kernel thread. The threading library is responsible for scheduling the threads onto the LWP and the kernel only sees a single threaded…

I tested some code in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server x64(3.2 kernel), which I think is using NPTL. when I run $ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION I get NPTL 2.15 The following is the test code. I compiled it with gcc -g -Wall -pthread #include…

QUESTION(s) : (1) How can users or I have direct-access (aka: view, send, receive, etc capabilities) for  web-emails/web-mails (i.e:"Mail.com") , from  simple/basic/lightweight/mobile  web-browser  thru/over  secure/encrypted  connection  and by…