Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition

A. Process Attributes

The table in this appendix lists the process attributes that are affected by a fork or exec and indicates where each is discussed in the book.

Note that the following are not process attributes because they exist independent of any process, as explained in Chapter 7. However, unlike files, their duration is normally only that of the live system—they’re lost on a reboot.

POSIX message queues (Section 7.7)

POSIX named semaphores (Section 7.10)

POSIX shared memory segments (Section 7.14)

System V message queue IDs (Section 7.5)

System V message queues (Section 7.5)

System V semaphore set IDs (Section 7.9)

System V semaphore sets (Section 7.9)

System V shared memory segment IDs (Section 7.13)

System V shared memory segments ...