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Re: thread vs fork?

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From Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject Re: thread vs fork?
Date Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:44 -0500
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On 8/28/2012 7:48 PM, Lew wrote:
> Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> When I first saw the OP's question, I first thought he was referring to
>> fork in the process-creation sense, so it's not clear to me offhand if
>> he is referring to the process-creation fork or Java-framework fork.
>
> The OP explicitly said, "in java [sic]". That clears up that question completely.

Not necessarily. If he meant the Java framework, I would have expected 
him to refer to it as "fork-join" instead of as just plain "fork". 
People do ask questions in this newsgroup all the time without naming 
things reliably. :-)

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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thread vs fork? Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-08-25 23:40 -0700
  Re: thread vs fork? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-26 03:27 -0400
  Re: thread vs fork? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-26 09:34 -0400
  Re: thread vs fork? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-28 00:52 -0700
    Re: thread vs fork? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-28 13:54 -0700
      Re: thread vs fork? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-08-28 19:08 -0500
        Re: thread vs fork? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-28 17:48 -0700
          Re: thread vs fork? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-08-28 20:01 -0500
            Re: thread vs fork? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-29 11:01 -0700

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