Got a handle on threads? Systems-programming guru Dr. Edward G. Bradford unravels the mysteries surrounding process and thread management in Linux and Windows, in this online article at IBM's developerWorks website. This column focuses on socket programming and performance within a single system. Bradford walks through the differences between processes and threads, shows how to create and destroy them, and writes a program you can use to study thread management on your systems.

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