The Linux Process Manager: The internals of scheduling, interrupts and signals - Softcover

O′Gorman, John

 
9780470847718: The Linux Process Manager: The internals of scheduling, interrupts and signals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470847719 ISBN 13: 9780470847718
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

* An ideal resource to understand the internals, line by line * Looks at architecture dependent code for PC version * Addresses process creation, timers, software and hardware interrupts, signals, tracing processes, and the virtual 8086 mode

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About the Author

John Oa Gorman is a senior lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in the area of reverse engineering, and he has been analysing a wide range of operating system internals, and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the topic, for 25 years. He is the author of two textbooks on operating systems, one of which takes Linux as a running example.

From the Back Cover

The Linux Process Manager is a line-by-line explanation of the subset of the Linux source code kernel which deals with process management, covering:

  • process creation, scheduling and termination
  • synchronisation, including locks and semaphores
  • interrupts (hardware and software)
  • signal handling

Complete in every way, this book describes every function and macro. All data structures used by the process manager are dealt with and their role in the overall picture explained along with the accompanying raw code.

This indispensable guide to the kernel subset is aimed at readers with some previous knowledge of operating system structure and terminology, as well as a minimum knowledge of the C programming language. The comprehensive index which lists every identifier, makes in-depth information instantly available to programmers, software engineers, system administrators and anyone who wants to modify the kernel, or wants to know about the implications of kernel configuration variables.

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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0470847719
ISBN 13 
9780470847718
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
846