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Thread Vs Process

vishnu mohan
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Hi,
what is the diffrence between a Thread and a Process ?
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Vishnumohan
John Dale
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One difference: Threads within a process share a single address space, and can, with care (synchronization), access one another's variables. Processes run in different address spaces, and must use inter-process communications mechanisms to exchange information.
 
 
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