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Sahil Rampal, Lovely Professional University Unit 2: Process Management-I

Unit 2: Process Management-I Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives

Introduction
2.1 Process Concept

2.1.1 Process

2.1.2 Process States

2.2 Process Control Block

2.3 Process Scheduling

2.3.1 Scheduling Queues

2.3.2 Schedulers

2.3.3 Context Switch

2.4 Cooperating Processes

2.5 Overview of Inter-Process Communication

2.5.1 Message-passing System

2.5.2 Naming

2.5.3 Direct Communication
2.5.4 Indirect Communication

2.5.5 Synchronization
2.5.6 Buffering

2.5.7 An Example: Mach

2.5.8 An Example: Windows 2000

2.6 Summary

2.7 Keywords

2.8 Review Questions

2.9 Further Readings

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