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Understanding Process Hierarchies and Implementation

The document discusses process hierarchies and implementation. It describes processes as active entities that need a program counter during execution. It also notes that root processes are generated by the system at startup while child processes are generated by users. Process implementation uses process tables linking process IDs to process control blocks.

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Understanding Process Hierarchies and Implementation

The document discusses process hierarchies and implementation. It describes processes as active entities that need a program counter during execution. It also notes that root processes are generated by the system at startup while child processes are generated by users. Process implementation uses process tables linking process IDs to process control blocks.

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Process Hirarchies

• Program- Passive Entinty(Usually stored on disk)

• Process- Active Entity (Usuall become under execution) and it


needs program counter as well to report it’s execution.

• Root or Parent process could be generated by the system


when it get started and child could be generated by the user.
Process Implementation
Process Implementation use type of data structures:
1- Process Table= Which keep the id of a process and a pointer which direct
he process to PCB (Process Control Block)
2- PCB=

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