From: Dean Wampler <deanwampler@...>
Date: 2006-05-10T10:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the difference between a Thread and a Process?

They also share open file "handles", at least on *nix systems, at the
point the fork occurs. (I'm not sure about Windows.) Each process may
then close some file handles (including stdin, stdout, and stderr) and
open others, independently of the other processes.

On 5/9/06, Dave Howell <groups@grandfenwick.net> wrote:
>
> On May 9, 2006, at 16:11, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> > I think the more notable difference is that threads share variables,
> > whereas forks don't:
>
> Aha. Now that's interesting. What DO forks share? Apparently Signals
> can move back and forth, to some degree....
>
> ...
>


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