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Simpler syslets

Posted Dec 11, 2007 0:13 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
Parent article: Simpler syslets

So invoking a syslet may or may not result in the program continuing as a new process.  What
happens to child processes in this case?  If they stay attached to the syslet process, the
main program won't be able to check their exit status.

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No ordinary process

Posted Dec 11, 2007 6:44 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]

A Linux "process" is a rather more generic concept than a POSIX process. Here we are talking about something more like a thread. See above.