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Since UNIX is one of multi-user and multiprocessing operating systems, UNIX has its solution to the system resource management. The UNIX kernel handles almost all the basic issues related to process management, memory management, file system, and I/O system, and provide well-defined system programs that have the clear-cut assignment of responsibility in order to allow user programs to call them with system calls (Bach 2006; McKusick et al 2005; Mohay et al 1997). This chapter will discuss the UNIX process management. Chapter 5 will introduce the UNIX memory management. Chapter 6 will focus on the UNIX file system. Chapter 7 will be related to the UNIX I/O system.
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Liu, Y., Yue, Y., Guo, L. (2011). UNIX Process Management. In: UNIX Operating System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20432-6_4
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