Operating System Design, 2nd Edition

Chapter Contents

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Process Suspension And Resumption
• 6.3 Self–suspension And Information Hiding
• 6.4 The Concept Of A System Call
• 6.5 Interrupt Control With Disable And Restore
• 6.6 A System Call Template
• 6.7 System Call Return Values SYSERR And OK
• 6.8 Implementation of Suspend
• 6.9 Suspending The Current Process
• 6.10 The Value Returned By Suspend
• 6.11 Process Termination And Process Exit
• 6.12 Process Creation
• 6.13 Other Process Manager Functions
• 6.14 Summary

6 More Process Management

When men willingly suspend fear, science flourishes.

— Anonymous

6.1 Introduction

Chapter 5 discusses the concurrent execution abstraction and process execution. The chapter explains how an operating system stores information about processes ...