3.2. The Process Manager Job

The responsibilities of the process manager include:

• Process creation and termination
• Thread creation and termination
• Process/thread synchronization
• Resource allocation
• Resource protection
• Cooperation with the device manager to implement I/O
• Implementation of the address space
• Process Scheduling

Contents

• 3.2.1. Process Finite State Diagrams
  • 3.2.1.1. Simple Process FSM
  • 3.2.1.2. Unix FSM
  • 3.2.1.3. Windows FSM
• 3.2.2. Process Resource Allocation