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Article #12232Re: Process vs Task
From: Fred Gilham
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 21:53
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 21:53
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In article <8459@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >I don't think there is *ever* a reason to use a Task instead of >a Process---or am I wrong? > >-tom > With a process you have to fill in some extra blanks. When I wrote a program that used two seperate threads of control, I had no reason to give the second thread any info about working directories, or whatever goes in the process extension of the task structure. So why bother? My understanding is if you want to make calls to dos, you need to be a process. Otherwise you can be a task. Is this right? -Fred Gilham
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!gilham From: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Process vs Task Message-ID: <8462@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 14 Apr 89 21:53:10 GMT References: <8459@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: Fred Gilham <gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: gilham@polya.Stanford.EDU (Fred Gilham) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 15