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  1. Jan 25th, 2002, 05:57 AM #1
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    Difference beetween thread and process?

    Hi!

    Can you tell me what's the difference beetween a thread ID an a process ID because I thought thread and process is the same?

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  2. Jan 25th, 2002, 07:54 AM #2
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    A thread is the space in which a process runs. The thread Id is the Id for that space, and the process Id is the Id of the individual process running in the thread.
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    In simplistic terms, a process is a single executing program.
    In languages that allow multithreading these processes may have more than one Thread running at any given time.

    The full hierarchy (for NT systems ) is:

    Window Station -< Desktop -< Process -< Thread -< Window

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