GETTID(2)                           Linux Programmer's Manual                           GETTID(2)



NAME
       gettid - get thread identification

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/types.h>

       pid_t gettid(void);

       Note: There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.

DESCRIPTION
       gettid()  returns  the caller's thread ID (TID).  In a single-threaded process, the thread
       ID is equal to the process ID  (PID,  as  returned  by  getpid(2)).   In  a  multithreaded
       process,  all  threads  have  the  same  PID,  but each one has a unique TID.  For further
       details, see the discussion of CLONE_THREAD in clone(2).

RETURN VALUE
       On success, returns the thread ID of the calling process.

ERRORS
       This call is always successful.

VERSIONS
       The gettid() system call first appeared on Linux in kernel 2.4.11.

CONFORMING TO
       gettid() is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs that are intended to be por‐
       table.

NOTES
       Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using syscall(2).

       The  thread ID returned by this call is not the same thing as a POSIX thread ID (i.e., the
       opaque value returned by pthread_self(3)).

SEE ALSO
       capget(2), clone(2),  fcntl(2),  fork(2),  get_robust_list(2),  getpid(2),  ioprio_set(2),
       perf_event_open(2),    sched_setaffinity(2),   sched_setparam(2),   sched_setscheduler(2),
       tgkill(2), timer_create(2)

COLOPHON
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       project,  information  about  reporting  bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                       2014-02-11                                  GETTID(2)