Netscape integration (or whither Southsoft ?)

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 22:32:28 -0400 (EDT), Darin McBride wrote:

>>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
>
>Woops.  Child processes can inherit open files.  ;-)
>


You're right.  However, while they inherit open files, it essentially
becomes a new file handle, meaning that if either the child or the
parent closes the file the other will still have it open (I am 90% sure
of this).


JBB
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