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> Forking predates threads. Suddenly, everything becomes clear.
by billpg 17y ago
> Forking predates threads.
Suddenly, everything becomes clear.
- jacquesm 17y agoMaybe clearer than it should be then :) You would still need something like fork, even if unix would have had threads from day 1. It's just that we wouldn't have been using fork+communication to simulate multi-threading in those cases where multi-threading are more appropriate.