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@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ aof.c and rdb.c
As you can guess from the names, these files implement the RDB and AOF
persistence for Redis. Redis uses a persistence model based on the `fork()`
-system call in order to create a thread with the same (shared) memory
-content of the main Redis thread. This secondary thread dumps the content
+system call in order to create a process with the same (shared) memory
+content of the main Redis process. This secondary process dumps the content
of the memory on disk. This is used by `rdb.c` to create the snapshots
on disk and by `aof.c` in order to perform the AOF rewrite when the
append only file gets too big.