How Deskshell commands are executed

This section describes how Desktop commands are executed within threads, to enable different actions to be processed concurrently. It explains how each thread inherits its context from the thread that invokes it, and explains how you can pass values between threads using global variables.

See also:

• ``Threads''

• ``The state of threads''

• ``Local variables''

• ``Global variables''

• ``Variable overriding''

• ``How environments are inherited''

• ``System thread''

• ``Window threads''

• ``Background threads''

• ``Pipelines''

• ``Executing actions within the same thread''

• ``Signals''

• ``Standard signals''