August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook
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Chapter 2. Processes and Threads
In this chapter
Now that you have a rather detailed understanding of the overall architecture of Windows 2000, take a closer look at the internals of jobs, processes, and threads—the workhorses inside any operating system.
Start by looking at the job object, which is new to Windows 2000 and might not be as familiar to you as the processes and threads. After looking at jobs in detail, you'll very briefly cover processes and threads.