Thursday, November 24, 2005

Process

An environment in which one or several threads run.
Examples of the context is the global memory address,
which is common for threads within a process. Note that
a process in itself does not execute code, but one or more
threads within the process can. In some systems that
does not have memory protection threads are sometimes
called processes. This should be avoided since it will only
lead to confusion.

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