Weird and Cool things from Linux Kernel Development

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:06:15 -0700

Recently I picked up Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love since I like his posts on Quora. Here are the things that I thought were cool or just surprised me.

Threaded Trees

Are cool. They act both like trees and linked lists.

Child processes vs Threads

The only difference between a child process and a thread in Linux is whether the CLONE_VM flag was passed to clone(), which copies the parent’s address space which allows the child to access the parent’s memory.

C on jeffcarp

Weird and Cool things from Linux Kernel Development

Threaded Trees

Child processes vs Threads