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# Concurrent Programming

Modern operating systems provide three basic approaches for building concurrent programs.

* Process: Each logical control flow is a process that is scheduled and maintained by the kernel.
* I/O multiplexing: Applications explicitly schedule their own logical flows in the context of a single process.
* Threads: Threads are logical flows that run in the context of a single process and are scheduled by the kernel.