As far as I know, .NET uses Windows processes.
What extra state information & functionality does it add to information contained in Windows thread/process descriptors?
And what is different in Linux (on Mono)?
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As far as I know nothing "new" is added. .Net encapsulates the Windows API functions in easy to use classes. A good exemple of that simplification are the System.Security.Principal namespace classes that make it VERY easy to use ACL/DACL objects, which used to be a hell in plain API.
Lobuno
2009-11-26 21:08:17
+1. Thank you. I think I'll do a deeper investigation myself some time...
Misha
2009-11-26 21:22:49