CSCI 5806 - Operating Systems

Topic 2 - Processes and Threads

From The Book

Chapters 3 and 4

Topic Outline

Process Concepts

  • Process Defined
  • Process Life Cycle and State Transition Diagrams
  • Process Data Structures
  • Context Switching
  • Interrupts, Processes and the OS
  • Interprocess Communication (IPC)

Thread Concepts

  • Motivation for Threads
  • Processes vs. Threads
  • User, Kernel and Hybrid Threads
  • Thread Life Cycle
  • Thread Signaling and Cancellation

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Chapter 3 - Process Concepts

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