Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

Chapter 4. Support for processes

4.1 Use of processes in systems

4.2 Processes and processors

4.3 Process state

4.4 Synchronizing with the hardware: Events and the WAIT operation

4.5 The process data structure

4.6 Scheduling: General approaches

4.7 Scheduling for shared-memory multiprocessors

4.8 Process scheduling to meet real-time requirements

4.9 Process abstraction and implementation

4.10 Operating system structure and placement of processes

4.11 Multi-threaded process implementation

4.12 Processes in languages, runtime systems and operating systems

4.13 Process state in language systems and operating systems

4.14 Sequential programs with system calls

4.15 Evolution of concurrency in programming languages

4.16 Implementation of processes in language systems ...