Книга: Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Exam Preparation Kit

Processes and Threads

Processes and Threads

A process is a single instance of an application. It has a processing context, which can include a virtual address space, executable code, open handles to system objects, a security context, a unique process identifier, and environment variables. It also has a primary thread of execution. A thread is the basic unit of execution managed by the scheduler. In a Windows process, a thread can create additional threads. There is no hard-coded maximum number of threads per process. The maximum number depends on available memory resources because every thread uses memory and the physical memory is limited on the platform. The maximum number of processes on Windows Embedded CE is limited to 32,000.

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