Processes and Threads (newbie's question)

Maloney johnm at wdi.disney.com
Tue Jun 23 23:40:38 UTC 1998


>Folks,
>
>    Is there any difference between creating a process (an independent
>path of control as one can read in the Process class's comment) and
>creating a thread when I use the BlockContext>>fork method in Squeak?
>    Thanks in advance.

Nope, those are just two names for the same thing. Note that Squeak
threads are independent of any platform native threads package.

	-- John





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