On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:46:26 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>My belief is that the IBM developers know what a task is and would not have >>included "task" in the field name if the field applied to anything other than >>a task. > > >They sure know and they sure know that a UNIX processs is just a standard MVS >task with some additional attributes. If a program running as a UNIX process >does, for example, a local spawn(), it creates a new process in the very same >address space. But this process needs to be tied to a TCB in order to be >dispatchable, so a new task is created as part of spwn() processing. > I believe I have seen it discussed that "task" is more closely akin to "thread".
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