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-.TH GETTID 2 2008-04-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETTID 2 2014-02-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
gettid \- get thread identification
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
.B pid_t gettid(void);
.fi
+
+.IR Note :
+There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR gettid ()
returns the caller's thread ID (TID).
.BR CLONE_THREAD
in
.BR clone (2).
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, returns the thread ID of the calling process.
.SH ERRORS
This call is always successful.
The
.BR gettid ()
system call first appeared on Linux in kernel 2.4.11.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
.BR gettid ()
is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs that
are intended to be portable.
.SH NOTES
Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
.BR syscall (2).
-.\" See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6399
+.\" FIXME See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6399
.\" "gettid() should have a wrapper"
The thread ID returned by this call is not the same thing as a
POSIX thread ID (i.e., the opaque value returned by
.BR pthread_self (3)).
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR capget (2),
.BR clone (2),
+.BR fcntl (2),
.BR fork (2),
-.BR getpid (2)
+.BR get_robust_list (2),
+.BR getpid (2),
+.\" .BR kcmp (2),
+.BR ioprio_set (2),
+.\" .BR move_pages (2),
+.\" .BR migrate_pages (2),
+.BR perf_event_open (2),
+.\" .BR process_vm_readv (2),
+.\" .BR ptrace (2),
+.BR sched_setaffinity (2),
+.BR sched_setparam (2),
+.BR sched_setscheduler (2),
+.BR tgkill (2),
+.BR timer_create (2)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.