.. _process_mgmt:

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The Process Manager Job
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**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**

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   p_states
   resource_alloc