Threads vs Processes

[John Henry]

>
> Carl,
>  OS writers provide much more tools for debugging, tracing, changing
> the priority of, sand-boxing processes than threads (in general) It
> *should* be easier to get a process based solution up and running
> andhave it be more robust, when compared to a threaded solution.
>
> - Paddy (who shies away from threads in C and C++ too ;-)

That mythical "process" is more robust then "thread" application
paradigm again.

No wonder there are so many boring software applications around.

Granted.  Threaded program forces you to think and design your
application much more carefully (to avoid race conditions, dead-locks,
...) but there is nothing inherently *non-robust* about threaded
applications.