Process Description and Control

1. 3.6 Security Issues

1.1. System Access Threats

1.2. Countermeasures

2. 3.4 Process Control

2.1. Modes of Execution

2.2. Process Creation

2.3. Process Switching

3. 3.5 Execution of the Operating System

3.1. Nonprocess Kernel

3.2. Execution within User Processes

3.3. Process-Based Operating System

4. 3.1 What Is a Process?

4.1. Background

4.2. Processes and Process Control Blocks

5. 3.2 Process States

5.1. A Two-State Process Model

5.2. The Creation and Termination of Processes

5.3. A Five-State Model

5.4. Suspended Processes

6. 3.3 Process Description

6.1. Operating System Control Structures

6.2. Process Control Structures