Try this.
syscall(SYS_gettid);

This should return the value of task_struct->pid

Regards,
Prabhu



On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:00 PM, CP YEH <ntdev74@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I would like to know if I can obtain thread id of calling thread. Let
me clarify what I mean by this.

First, here is task_struct from linux kernel code.

struct task_struct {
      struct list_head tasks;
      pid_t pid;
      pid_t tgid;
      struct task_struct *group_leader;  /* threadgroup leader */
      struct list_head thread_group;
};

I understand that getpid returns tgid and gettid via __NR_gettid
returns tid but according to manpage, it seems to me that it is same
as what I get from getpid().

Man page of gettid:
      gettid() returns the thread ID of the current process.  This is
equal to the
      process ID (as returned by getpid(2)), unless  the  process  is
 part  of  a
      thread  group

However, I would like to obtain pid of task_struct. Is there any way I
can get that information?
Thank you.

YEH

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