fork System Call
When a process spawns a separate process to handle some work, it invokes
the fork(2) system call. fork(2) duplicates the current process in …
This is the rendered collections of notes by me, Lex Toumbourou.
You can find the source on the GitHub project.
The notes are collecting using my interpretation of the Zettelkasten method.
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You can find the source on the GitHub project.
The notes are collecting using my interpretation of the Zettelkasten method.
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Orphan Processes
When a parent process finishes executing before its children, the child processes are said to become orphan processes.
When this happens, the init process - the …
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Zombie Processes
Zombie processes are "dead" processes. That is, processes that have finished executing and are waiting for the parent to reap them (collect information about their …