Re: Processes and Threads

On Sep 15, 6:14 am, Jan-Thierry Wegener <wege...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

i know that processes can create threads and processes, but my question
is: can threads create other threads or even processes?

If not, how could you *ever* create a thread or a process? If any code
is running, by definition it's a thread.

is this on all *nix systems the same or do they differ?

It's a matter of definition. A thread is just a stream of execution.
You cannot have any code running without a thread.

This might help:

Thread: A stream of execution.

Process: A logical address space, file descriptor table, and other
resources shared by one or more threads.

A thread (that is part of a process) can typically do two things:

1) Call a function like 'pthread_create' that creates an additional
thread in the same process.

2) Call a function like 'fork' that creates a new process that starts
with a single thread.

DS

.

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