June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
A process holds the environment in which threads can run: it holds the memory mappings, the file descriptors, the user and group IDs, and more. The first process is the init process, which is created by the kernel during boot and has a PID of one. Thereafter, processes are created by duplication in an operation known as forking.
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