What is the difference between UNIX and windows operating systems?
When a thread is created the threads does not require any new resources to execute the thread shares the resources like memory of the process to which they belong to. The benefit of code sharing is that it allows an application to have several different threads of activity all within the same address...
hi,Adding to above one more important thing to keep in consideration,even threads share the same address space of the process, each thread has its own stack so if u are running multithreading program ...
Thread:
In case of thread only one copy of resources are made. means Resources are shared between different threads. This is done on a synchronised basis.
Process:
A separate instances of resources are alloted to different processes at same time and they are not synchronised.
UNIX:- free- open - multiuser and multitasking- file system in hierachical model (each file is a chil of another one)- no viruses ( because of the shell)- more stable- when it starts, it only runs nee...
UNIX is more secured Operating System.