Re: keeping track of thread ids

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 10:20:46PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:
> Thread id:s will be of the form
> 
>     | subsystem |   tid | taskid |
>       31     29   28 14   13   0

Note that not all bits in the thread no are actually available (how many are
available is defined in the KIP).  On ia32, this is only 17 bits, not the 18
one might initially think.
   
Thanks,
Marcus

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