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gettid(2)                     System Calls Manual                    gettid(2)

NAME
       gettid - get thread identification

LIBRARY
       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <unistd.h>

       pid_t gettid(void);

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 thread.

ERRORS
       This call is always successful.

VERSIONS
       The  gettid() system call first appeared in Linux 2.4.11.  Library sup-
       port was added in glibc 2.30.  (Earlier glibc versions did not  provide
       a wrapper for this system call, necessitating the use of syscall(2).)

STANDARDS
       gettid()  is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs that are
       intended to be portable.

NOTES
       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)).

       In  a new thread group created by a clone(2) call that does not specify
       the CLONE_THREAD flag (or,  equivalently,  a  new  process  created  by
       fork(2)),  the  new  process  is  a thread group leader, and its thread
       group ID (the value returned by getpid(2)) is the same as its thread ID
       (the value returned by gettid()).

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_set-
       param(2), sched_setscheduler(2), tgkill(2), timer_create(2)

Linux man-pages 6.03              2022-12-04                         gettid(2)

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