[Mageia-discuss] Chinese translation for Mageia's page

Thu Sep 23 16:02:18 CEST 2010

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2010/9/23 Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com>:
+>   
+>> I think a branch is very different from a fork. For instance, forking
+>> a process (programming) is very hard to understand in Chinese
+>> literatrue.
+>>     
+>
+> I see, so if something splits into 2 ongoing parts then one is always
+> th superior and the other is the branch? Ok, I'm sure there are many
+> expressions in Chinese which may be alien to our languages.
+>
+> Actually Mageia is more a branch than a fork anyway /me thinks.
+>   
+In English (at least here in North Central Texas) when referring to a 
+river, a branch and a fork are much the same thing ... either can 
+indicate the dividing of a river in either the upstream or the down 
+stream direction.  But in Unix/Linux a fork usually means that a process 
+(the parent) makes a copy of itself (the child), and then these both 
+continue, possibly on their own but not necessarily (do I understand 
+that correctly?).  If that is so (definition of fork for Linux), is 
+their an appropriate word or phrase (is that the right way to say it?) 
+in Chinese?  Hope that helps.  Hope it isn't too hopelessly off the mark.
+Regards
+Fred James
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