March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
In earlier sections we have defined the state of a process as far as the operating system is concerned, that is, the information stored on a process by the process management module of the operating system. It includes the value of the program counter and the contents of other hardware registers; information about any ongoing interaction of the process with the hardware, such as events the process is waiting for and events of interest to the process that have already occurred; the files a process has opened; and the memory that has been allocated to the process.
A process which is executing a program, originally written in a high-level language, also has a language-level state comprising ...