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Question: What is the difference between process and thread?

June 06, 2008 13:39:44	#7
uspinar	Member Since: June 2008 Total Comments: 1
RE: What is the difference between process and thread?
Operating system is aware of process, it can see the processes. But operating system is NOT aware of thread, do not see them. Threads are only visible in processes, created by the user within user space. Think like process is a bucket for threads and a process may have multiple threads. And most importantly if there is no process there can not be any thread. Pinar Uyanik