Process Management
Core concepts of process and thread management.
The data
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- Term
- Process
- Description
- An instance of a program in execution with its own address space.
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- Term
- Thread
- Description
- A single flow of control within a process sharing its resources.
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- Term
- Process Control Block
- Description
- Data structure storing process state, registers, and scheduling info.
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- Term
- Context Switch
- Description
- Saving and restoring CPU state when switching between processes.
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- Term
- Fork
- Description
- System call creating a child process as a copy of the parent.
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- Term
- Exec
- Description
- System call replacing the current process image with a new program.
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- Term
- Zombie Process
- Description
- A terminated process whose exit status has not been collected.
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- Term
- Orphan Process
- Description
- A process whose parent has terminated before it.
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