/proc question

[Philipp Ittershagen]

Hello Surenkumar,

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Surenkumar Nihalani <suren at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am writing a kernel module and I wanted to know which data structure backs
> up the /proc/self or how do I get the process id of my call and number of
> it's threads from within the kernel?


You can get the process id of the current context using the directive
"current->pid". The macro "current" refers to the current task struct,
so it should also be possible to get the number of threads.


Philipp