On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .. > > > > ...instead of struggling with hard-to-debug threads in cases where > > > > you actually want the memory protection offered by processes > > > > (something threads don't have) but could not use them before due... > > > > > > i.e. to control access to resources which you have to 'manually' protect > > > via semaphores if you were to use threads... > > > > SysV semaphores involving locking this shared process threads > > are very well supported on most linux systems. > > You know, it's really weird, but I much prefer the threading model to > using separate processes and SysV IPC. The idiot-mode "shared variables" > model of threads is transparent IPC. Anyway there are macros for locking > them. >
Which reinforces what was said to me before regarding the subject of threads and processes -> threads simply offer a more convenient way of programming than processes. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
