12-24-2002
I don't exactly have an answer, but I may be able to shed some light here.
When you use fopen(), you get a stream. But this is built on open() and open() would give you an fd. The fd is a kernel thing and the stream is a library thing built on top on it.
In the same way, a lwp is a kernel thing and a thread (or a pthread) is a library thing.
What I have just discovered this morning is that the lwp's and the threads are not in a one-to-one correspondence.
Look at "man pthread_attr_init". You will see language like 'This thread is not "bound" to a LWP, and is also called an unbound thread.'
I gotta read up on threads sometimes. Since you are trying to count them, maybe you should do the same. In any event, it looks like counting LWP's is not going to help you counting threads.
Here is my guess as to why 3 lwps:
Consider what would happen if you did an fopen(), but all of the fd's were in use. If you had not yet reached the limit on fd's, when the open() system call occurred, the kernel would allocate another chunk of fd's to the process, not just one.
Or if you need more stack, your stack grows by a page, not just the few bytes that you need.
Or if you write another byte to a disk file, the file may grow by a full block.
The kernel may not be easily able to give you just one lwp, or it may just be attempting to be efficient.
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td_ta_get_nthreads
td_ta_get_nthreads(3C_DB) Threads Debugging Library Functions td_ta_get_nthreads(3C_DB)
NAME
td_ta_get_nthreads - gets the total number of threads in a process for libc_db
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lc_db [ library... ]
#include <proc_service.h>
#include <thread_db.h>
td_err_e td_ta_get_nthreads(const td_thragent_t *ta_p, int *nthread_p);
DESCRIPTION
The td_ta_get_nthreads() function returns the total number of threads in process ta_p, including any system threads. System threads are
those created by libc or libc_db on its own behalf. The number of threads is written into *nthread_p.
RETURN VALUES
TD_OK The call completed successfully.
TD_BADTA An invalid internal process handle was passed in.
TD_BADPH There is a NULL external process handle associated with this internal process handle.
TD_DBERR A call to one of the imported interface routines failed.
TD_ERR The nthread_p argument was NULL, or a libc_db internal error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
libc_db(3LIB), attributes(5), threads(5)
SunOS 5.11 20 Oct 1998 td_ta_get_nthreads(3C_DB)