What are the system calls used for process management:

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What are the system calls used for process management:..

Answer / chandrasekhar kar

The system calls for process management are
Fork() > create child process
Vfork() > create child process (copy-on-write only)
exec() > exec to do a different task
wait() > wait for a process to complete execution
kill() > to send a signal to a process
signal() > to handle a signal
sigaction() > handle signal
exit() > exit from a process execution
_exit() > same as exit() but with out clean up

and many more ................

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What are the system calls used for process management:..

Answer / k.sri ganesh

fork() - To Duplicate the Process
exec() - Family of Functions Replace the calling process
image with new process image

getpid() - To get process id
getppid() - To get the parent process id
getpgrp() - To get the process group


wait() - To wait the calling process to get child's exit status
sleep() - To suspend the execution of the process for some
seconds
kill() - To send signal to a process
exit()-terminate the calling process
brk()-change data segment size
signal()-ANSI c signal handler
nice()-run a program with modified scheduling priority

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What are the system calls used for process management:..

Answer / guest

The system calles for process management are fork() which
will create a process
wait() will wait for exit status of all child processes.

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What are the system calls used for process management:..

Answer / prashanth

The system calls for process management are fork() and vfork
() which will create a process.

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What are the system calls used for process management:..

Answer / marimuthu

fork() - To Duplicate the Process
exec() - Family of Functions Replace the calling process image with new process image

getpid() - To get process id
getppid() - To get the parent process id
getpgrp() - To get the process group


wait() - To wait the calling process to get child's exit status
sleep() - To suspend the execution of the process for some seconds
kill() - To send signal to a process

and etc

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