Process API
Explore the key functions of a process API in operating systems, including how processes are created, destroyed, waited on, controlled, and monitored to understand process management within virtualization.
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Though we defer discussion of a real process API until a subsequent chapter, here we first give some idea of what must be included in any interface of an operating system. These APIs, in some form, are available on any modern operating system.
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