December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 8m
English
In layman's terms, the word process refers to a program in execution. In terms of the OS, however, a process is an address space in the memory. Every application, whether it is a Windows, web, or mobile application, needs processes to run. Processes provide security for programs against other programs that run on the same system so that data that's allocated to one cannot be accidentally accessed by another. They also provide isolation so that programs can be started and stopped independently of each other and independently of the underlying OS.
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