8 Message Passing
The message of history is clear: the past lies before us.
— Anonymous
8.1 Introduction
Previous chapters explain the basic components of a process manager, including: scheduling, context switching, and counting semaphores that provide coordination among concurrent processes. The chapters show how processes are created and how they terminate, and explain how an operating system keeps information about each process in a ...
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