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  From: Mike Andrew <mikero@norfolk.nf>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:01:33 +1130

Re: X Refreshing

On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, David Newall wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Alan Kennington wrote:
> > I think you could say that [Star Offfice] is a multi-threaded program.
> > It uses the HWP facility (Heavy-Weight Processes).
> 
> Not necessarily.  I understand the term "Heavy-Weight Process" to mean
> a Unix process, as distinct from a light-weight process, commonly called
> a thread.  Linux threads use the standard process infrastructure, so a
> process with (say) four threads would occupy four slots in the process
> table, and would have four process ids.  It would not be obvious that
> this was one process with four threads, and not four separate "heavy-
> weight" proceses.

all of which is meaningless (no flame) unless the underlying libraries
support threads. In the context of the original enquirer (s)he was using
Kmail on  KDE and KDE relies on QT. Until both KDE 2 and QT 2  are
released, the philoshophy of who does what to whom is moot.

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