[mythtv-users] OT: A major difference between Widows and Linux

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, May 12, 2016 08:23:54 PM Mike Perkins wrote:
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> With Linux, it is assumed that everythings starts off as a process which is forked from init or a 
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> With Windows, every single program starts from the assumption that it has a Main Window, even if the 
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> That is the fundamental difference between Windows programming and Unix programming.

Close!

The fundamental-ist difference is forking - Unix has it and modern Windows, even derived from Dave Cutler's VMS work, doesn't. Multi-threading came along to provide fork-like behaviour but all threads are within a single process.

Nothing beats being able to fork a whole other process with its own environment that lives or dies on its own with only a bit of IPC connecting it to the parent process.


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