Netscape integration (or whither Southsoft ?)

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 09:14:47 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    Sure it could, was called fork().  Unix had processes, others had
>threads.  Even now when a program can be multithreaded the threads just show
>up as processes.  One process cannot take down the whole box, that would be
>considered a protected kernel in my book.


Sorry Steve, you are wrong.  Threads and forked processes are two
entirely different thins.  A fork creates an entirely new process,
totally independent from the parent.  It has it's own address space,
own open files, etc.  Everything is new.  On the other hand, a thread
is part of the parent process.  It shares address space, files, window
handles, etc.  The fact that a thread shows up as a process means that
it is a lightweight process, but it still shares the program
environment with the parent.

JBB
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