Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 00:12:58 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads comment Message-ID: <20010803001257.H6870@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <"from julian"@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107311550441.35786-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Tuesday, July 31, 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > if we'd called the thread a "process" > and the thing that has a pid a "task" (or something) That would be extremely confusing. A task would be a thing to go to; that sounds more like an instruction, or maybe a thread. I think your current diff does it best: Everybody knows that a single process has one or more threads of execution, rather than a task having one or more processes of execution. Don't you agree? -- +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | Don't document the program; program the document. | | chris@calldei.com | | +-------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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