Thread: Stupid Questions.....

Originally Posted by LuckY

A thread belongs to a process and is an independently executing series of instructions (meaning they run concurrently with any other threads in the same process and external processes).

A segmentation fault is...

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A thread is not a process. Generally speaking, a process is an executing program/application, while threads are children of processes.

you mean, technically speaking

Originally Posted by misplaced

you mean, technically speaking

While I appreciate your attempt to inform me of my own thoughts, I said what I meant. Rather than providing a detailed description of all things involved in a computer process and how one is created/maintained by an operating system, I felt it would only be beneficial for our dear Krak to understand it's general definition. Besides, my definition is not what a process is in technical terms; I simply stated precisely what a process is.