Module: Processes

Process, address space, context switching, fork(), orphans, and zombies.

Learning Outcomes

Understand process concepts and apply them to programming problems.

Understand the process abstraction and how the OS implements it
Understand process creation in Linux and gain hands-on experience with process creation in Java
Understand popular Inter-Process-Communication (IPC) abstractions
Gain hands-on experience with the Pipe abstraction

Readings

Processes

Process, address space, process control block in the kernel, context switches, fork(), orphans, zombies

Lecture notes

Textbook Reading

Sections 3.1, 3.2.3, and 3.3

Reading

IPCs

Message passing, RPC/RMI, Pipes, Java.ProcessBuilder, Signals

Lecture notes

Textbook Reading

Sections 3.4-6

Reading

Sample code

code

Experiential Learning

Processes

Count processes created by a program

Sample problems

Processes

Count processes created by a program

Solutions