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A SHORT TOUR OF A USER PROCESS

The subprocess tree of a user process contained 9 system subprocesses, one initializing subprocess that destroyed itself after starting the process, and one or more user subprocesses. The following is a list of those subprocesses with a brief statement of their function. (See figure 5.)

 

Paul McJones
1998-06-22