What are the system calls used for process management:

Answer Posted / 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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