An operating system (OS) is an interface between hardware and user, which is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the resources of a computer, that acts as a host for computing applications run on the machine. One of the purposes of an operating system is to handle the resource … Read more

Process management is one of the most important and relevant tasks in operating system design. In this paper,we investigate the process management in Linux, FreeBSD, and Darwin. We compare the data structures used to representprocess and the global variables used to control the current active process in three operating systems. Based on the definitionuseanalysis, we … Read more