mkirank has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to know the difference between process and threads , i was told that under *nix systems when we do a fork a new process would be created with its own text and data segment(stack...)...what about threads ?..is this dependant on the OS ?.. and how to create threads in perl ???

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Re: Threads and Process
by jreades (Friar) on Dec 13, 2002 at 11:26 UTC

    This has been covered before in several places on this site so it is a good idea to do a power search and save yourself quite a bit of time.

    This node should help: Threads vs Forking (Java vs Perl)

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Re: Threads and Process
by bronto (Priest) on Dec 13, 2002 at 11:25 UTC

    Run perldoc perlthrtut and read on :-)

    Ciao!
    --bronto

    # Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->make($love) ;
}

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[d/l]
Re: Threads and Process
by BazB (Priest) on Dec 13, 2002 at 15:56 UTC
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