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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
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Date: 27 May 89 04:21:25 GMT
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In article <31756@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:

>There should be at least three ways to start multiprocessing:  fork(),
>thread(), and spawn().

Can someone explain how a thread differs from a fork, and whether the
difference is desirable compared to forks with shared text, copy-on-write
data, and the ability to explicitly request shared memory for data?

Les Mikesell