From: Dan Nelson
Date: August 18 2002 7:00pm
Subject: Re: Displaying the real thread PIDs.
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In the last episode (Aug 18), Reid Sutherland said:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> 'processlist' displays the current list of mysql threads as seen by
> mysql.  I'm looking for that same list but in real thread PID form. 
> Right now I need to be able to tell which thread is which at a system
> level.  Then I'm able to send a SIGKILL to some problem threads.

You cannot send signals to individual threads.  Signals are delivered
to the process as a whole rather than to a thread.  The only way to
kill a thread is from within the application itself.  Mysql provides
the "kill <id>" command for this.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped