[clug] threads v processes
steve jenkin
sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Sep 6 03:40:43 MDT 2012
Has anyone out there in CLUG-land used POSIX thread libraries and
willing to help me understand a small design point about them?
I was reading a paper by Rob Pike and he mentions:
- Processes need to lock shared memory because they *can* execute in
parallel (simultaneously)
- threads within a single process don't ever execute simultaneously.
Does anyone know if this is right with Linux on multi-core processors??
Thanks in Advance
steve jenkin
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