Process

Process Creation

This seems fairly trivial, but it’s important to know what needs to be done.

1. Assign a unique process identifier (PID)
2. Allocate space for the process
3. Initialize process control block
4. Set up appropriate linkages
   • Ex: add new process to linked list used for scheduling queue
5. Create of expand other data structures
   • Ex: maintain an accounting file

Related

• Process Spawning