In any OS with a POSIX API
when a child process is created....
the child shares system resources with it's parent
or some of parent's resources are alloted to the child
so y go for threads in a OS with POSIX API say a unix machine?
I mean we can just create a new child process instead of a thread!!!

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In any OS with a POSIX API
when a child  process is created....
the child shares system resources with it's parent
or some of parent's resources are alloted to the child
so y go for threads in a OS with POSIX API say a unix machine?
I mean we can just create a new child process instead of a thread!!!

anonymous · Answer

@chris

anonymous · Answer

@ktobah 
@infinity_ 
@nick67

nick67 · Answer

@A.Avinash_Goutham hope this document could be useful for your purposes: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-posix1/index.html

anonymous · Answer

um thanks @nick67 
sir can u help me with some thin
i referred to wiki(pedia) about a handle
wiki says it's an abstract reference to a resource
and now what does a signal handler mean?
are these two both different?