[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 > > 1) One Process over all with several threads running inside it (Would
 > > seem the most likely given the POSIX thread concept. Where one is Linux
 > 
 > Yes. Although Linux has its own kernel-threads and user processes and the user 
 >processes
 > may have POSIX threads inside 'em.

 > > 2) Several processes running on the RTL kernel, where the idle one is
 > > Linux.
 > 
 > You can think of it this way, if you think of the RTthreads as "processes". The 
 > general convention is that a "process" probably has memory protection and threads
 > share address space (although this is not always observed) so (1) is more correct.

Well, that�s pretty similar to "somewhat pregnant" :-) 

It actually tells exactly what it is: There is no general consensus on
the exact meaning of process vs. thread.
So there is no single answer to the original question that is
considered the one and only correct one by everybody.  It's research,
not textbook mathematics. (Though _I_ wouldn't call it science:-)

Jochen
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