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Re: [public-web-plugins] <none>

From: SerpentMage (Christian Gross) <mailing@devspace.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:07:18 +0200
Message-ID: <3F520116.40506@devspace.com>
To: public-web-plugins@w3.org 

Peter Greenwood wrote:

>Christian Gross said:
>  
>
>Not true, at least on my system (Mozilla/Red Hat Linux). The java_vm
>process appears the first time the browser loads a page containing a
>java applet.
>
That is because Linux does not understand the notion of a thread.  In 
Linux a thread is a lightweight process that shares common address 
space.  A "process" is a lightweight process that does not share a 
common address space.  That is quite unique to Linux...

Christian Gross
Received on Sunday, 31 August 2003 10:07:22 GMT

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