October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 28m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Kernel Development
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Processes
Quintessentially, computing systems are designed, developed, and often tweaked for running user applications efficiently. Every element that goes into a computing platform is intended to enable effective and efficient ways for running applications. In other words, computing systems exist to run diverse application programs. Applications can run either as firmware in dedicated devices or as a "process" in systems driven by system software (operating systems).
At its core, a process is a running instance of a program in memory. The transformation from a program to a process happens when the program (on disk) is fetched into memory for execution.
A program’s binary image carries code (with all its binary instructions) and data (with ...