Revise · W00 · Part 5Operating System Concepts for System Design
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Processes isolate, threads share
A process owns its memory and file descriptors, so one crash kills only itself. Threads share the heap and descriptors with their own stacks: cheap to create and switch, but one crash kills them all.
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