October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 28m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Kernel Development
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Process status and termination
During the lifetime of a process, it traverses through many states before it ultimately terminates. Users must have proper mechanisms to be updated with all that happens to a process during its lifetime. Linux provides a set of functions for this purpose.