Operating systems notes
The Process & the PCB
What a running program actually is to the kernel, and the record it keeps to manage one. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 19 minutes in all.
- Chapter 8 of 37
- About 19 minutes
- 9 sections
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In this chapter
- What a process really is
- What the process owns in memory
- The Process Control Block
- Process states & the state diagram
- Creating a process: fork()
- Running a new program: exec()
- Waiting & exit: reaping children
- Zombies & orphans
- Process vs thread & why engineers care
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