[fpc-pascal]fork with forked program
Jonas Maebe
jonas at zeus.ugent.be
Tue Sep 16 15:03:03 CEST 2003
On dinsdag, sep 16, 2003, at 14:55 Europe/Brussels, Matt Emson wrote:
> Got you. So the correct term would be 'multiprocess'. I always forget
> that
> UNIX considers processes to be seperate to threads. BeOS does things
> slightly differently. We have the notion of 'teams'. A thread belongs
> to a
> 'team'. All threads are effectively light weight processes. However,
> and I
> forget the exact reason, a team is not an exact equivilence to a UNIX
> process.
This has nothing to do with unix <-> BeOS. For example, Solaris is
definitely Unix and also uses the concept of light weight processes.
Different OS'es simply use different process models.
Jonas
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