On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Matt Emson wrote:
> Michael, forgive me if I am wrong - I am not a Unix buff - but I was under > the impression that forking was a method for creating multithreaded unix > apps?!? Everytime you fork() you end up with two seperate processes running > concurrently. You differentiate between them by chacking the result given by > fork(). Certainly under Cygwin this works. I also have some code written > using POSIX calls on BeOS that creates a daemon by forking 3 times. Multithreaded applications share the same memory space. Forked applications are truly separate applications, they have a different memory space. So the term 'multithreaded' doesn't apply. If you want to share the same memory space, you need the 'Clone' function in linux. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
