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Ioannis Vranos - 08 Nov 2004 08:19 GMT

In .NET, what happens when a background thread and a foreground thread
have the same priority (e.g. Normal). Do they share the same processor time?

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Jochen Kalmbach - 08 Nov 2004 08:25 GMT

Hi Ioannis Vranos,

> In .NET, what happens when a background thread and a foreground thread
> have the same priority (e.g. Normal). Do they share the same processor
> time?

Yes.
The difference between background and foreground thread is only the fact
that if the app terminates, any background thread will also be terminated.
Foreground threads must terminate itself before the app can terminate.

See: Foreground and Background Threads
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconthreadlevels.asp

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