January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 1m
English
We are finally ready to tie the process logical view to the kernel virtual view. To review what we have seen so far, as a process is initialized, the system creates a linked list of pregion structures in accordance with header information stored in the program file. This information was created and placed in the executable file header by the linking-loader that built the program file. As Figure 6-12 shows, each program's logical pregions are linked to an underlying kernel region structure.

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