Matt Gerrans
Posts: 1153
Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002
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Re: Contd....of join()???
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Posted: Jan 8, 2004 11:58 AM
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> What is the exact meaning of spawn???
Well, what do you mean by it?
As Adam pointed out, spawn, like most words, has a general meaning and several specific meanings in different domains, but without context the precise meaning is unclear.
Can you provide some meaningful context? That would help answer the question.
As far as Java goes, I don't think there is a spawn() API call, as there is in some other APIs (eg. Python -- in which it is tantamount to "create process" and whether you wait for it to complete is optional), so you need to be more specific about what you mean. Are you talking about threads? Are you talking about Runtime.exec()? Or are you talking about salmon?
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