Processus (informatique)Un processus (en anglais, process), en informatique, est un programme en cours d'exécution par un ordinateur. De façon plus précise, il peut être défini comme : un ensemble d'instructions à exécuter, pouvant être dans la mémoire morte, mais le plus souvent chargé depuis la mémoire de masse vers la mémoire vive ; un espace d'adressage en mémoire vive pour stocker la pile, les données de travail ; des ressources permettant des entrées-sorties de données, comme des ports réseau.
Exit (system call)On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call. More generally, an exit in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. For resource management, the operating system reclaims resources (memory, , etc.) that were used by the process. The process is said to be a dead process after it terminates. Under Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a process is started when its parent process executes a fork system call.
Wait (system call)In computer operating systems, a process (or task) may wait for another process to complete its execution. In most systems, a parent process can create an independently executing child process. The parent process may then issue a wait system call, which suspends the execution of the parent process while the child executes. When the child process terminates, it returns an exit status to the operating system, which is then returned to the waiting parent process. The parent process then resumes execution.
Initinit (abréviation de initialisation) est le premier programme informatique exécuté sur les systèmes d'exploitation basés Unix. Il est exécuté comme un daemon informatique et possède l'identifiant de processus (PID) 1. init est lancé par le noyau (kernel en anglais) et reste actif jusqu'à ce que le système soit éteint. Il est le parent direct ou indirect de tous les autres programmes lancés sur le système. Les fonctionnalités du programme init divergent considérablement entre BSD et System V.
Exit statusIn computing, the exit status, or exit code, of a terminated process is an integer number that is made available to its parent process (or caller). In DOS, this may be referred to as an errorlevel. When computer programs are executed, the operating system creates an abstract entity called a process in which the book-keeping for that program is maintained. In multitasking operating systems such as Unix or Linux, new processes can be created by active processes.
Parent processIn computing, a parent process is a process that has created one or more child processes. In Unix-like operating systems, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork() system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process and the newly created process is the child process. Every process (except process 0) has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The operating system kernel identifies each process by its process identifier.
