Chapter 4. Process Management
4.1 Introduction to Process Management
A process is a program in execution. A process has an address space containing a mapping of its program’s object code and global variables. It also has a set of kernel resources that it can name and on which it can operate using system calls. These resources include its credentials, signal state, and its descriptor array that gives it access to files, pipes, sockets, and devices. Each process has at least one and possibly many threads that execute its code. Every thread represents a virtual processor with a full context worth of register state and its own stack mapped into the address space. Every thread running in the process has a corresponding kernel thread, with its own ...
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