In general, a computer system process consists of (or is said to own) the following resources:
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When processes need to communicate with each other they must share parts of their address spaces or use other forms of inter-process communication (IPC). For instance in a shell pipeline, the output of the first process needs to pass to the second one, and so … See more

• Background process
• Code cave
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• Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (2014). "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces". Arpaci-Dusseau Books. Relevant chapters: Abstraction: The Process See more

A multitasking operating system may just switch between processes to give the appearance of many processes executing simultaneously (that is, in parallel), though in fact only one … See more

By the early 1960s, computer control software had evolved from monitor control software, for example IBSYS, to executive control software. Over time, computers got faster while computer time was still neither cheap nor fully utilized; such an environment made See more

1. ^ Some modern CPUs combine two or more independent processors in a multi-core configuration and can execute several processes simultaneously. Another technique … See more