"fcmartins" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > vitamin wrote: > > Processes don't use CPU, threads do. > > > > Process is just resource - memory, handles, etc. Thread is what > > actually being executed on a CPU. Each process has at least one > > thread. > > This might be true in some specific multithreading implementation > you might have in mind, but it's not true in general ... I suspect vitamin was giving you the Windows definitions, since that is what Windows apps expect and thus what Wine must provide (or, at least, appear to). The notion of a process being a resource container does not sound all that Unix/Linux-ish to me, either, but I would not be at all surprised to find it considered standard terminology in Windows.
