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The Kernel and the Unix Process API

The Kernel and the Unix Process API. Jeff Chase Duke University. The story so far: process and kernel. A (classical) OS lets us run programs as processes . A process is a running program instance (with a thread ). Program code runs with the core in untrusted user mode.

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CPS 310 Recitation: Unix Processes etc.

CPS 310 Recitation: Unix Processes etc. Jeff Chase Duke University http:// www.cs.duke.edu /~chase/ cps310. Operating Systems: The Classical View. Each process has a private virtual address space and one or more threads. Programs run as independent processes. data. data.

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Process Related System Calls

Process Related System Calls. By Neha Hulkoti & Kavya Bhat. System calls. The UNIX system provides several system calls to create and end program, to send and receive software interrupts, to allocate memory, and to do other useful jobs for a process.

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