Re: Processes vs Threads
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:19:03 GMT
Message-ID: <lchutsonCynEns.HI8_at_netcom.com>
Paul Beardsell (psb_at_sambusys.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Of course, MS Windows and VMS programmers love threads - they don't
: have (a proper or a cheap) fork(). Why do threads exist in the Unix
: environment if they are as useless as I say? Because then the likes
: of Transarc can provide portability between Unix, VMS and Windows
: via compatible threading libraries. Finally we have the reason
: for the existence of of threads. And that's why I'll ignore them:
: For the same reason I ignore VMS and MS Windows.
Paul, I have followed your arguments abput threads and they seem to make sense. But what about assigning threads or process'es for that matter to certain processor's in a multi-processor environment. Is there support for this ? Would this make threads usefull?
Another question is what about NT? Is there support for fork() and exec()? I thought NT was POSIX compliant.
Just A few thoughts.
Lawrence C. Hutson, Consultant
Hutson Consulting Inc.
On Assignment _at_ GTE Network Operations
Received on Wed Nov 02 1994 - 17:19:03 CET