What's a process?
What's a thread?

processes, lightweight processes, and threads

compare
FORK(), JOIN(), QUIT()
with
fork(), wait(), exit()

p54: Even Version 2.0 of Linux used classic processes.

p55: Unlike classic UNIX processes (but very much like threads), the
    process created with the FORK() command executes the same copy of a
    program and information that is used by the "parent" process (the
    process that created the new one).

Discussion of how Copy On Write makes Linux fork() very fast.
    

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