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Development Tools Console Foundations Environment and Redirection Find and Grep

James Barrett
James Barrett
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Posted by James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

Program vs session vs process

I'm hearing these words used quite often during Jim's lectures. However I just want to get a better understanding of what each of these words mean with regards to the console.

To me:

Session - Processes and programs are kind of like children of sessions. A session would contain certain programs and processes. Process - Something that is currently being run during a session. Program - An actual file? E.g. hello.txt

Please correct if I am wrong.

Thanks, James.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

I think you've pretty much got it. :+1:

Except that "hello.txt" is not likely to be a program file. "Hello.exe" might be.

James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points
James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

Cool, thanks for clarification :)