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Or rather the reverse, in Linux terminology. Only processes exist, some just happen to share the same virtual address space.

Threads and processes are semantically quite different in standard computer science terminology. A thread has an execution state, i.e. its set of set of processor register values. A process on the other hand is a management and isolation unit for resources like memory and handles.



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