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<li>A system call that creates a new process by creating a logical copy of the current process.</li> | |||
<li>The part of the operating system that runs in supervisor mode on the CPU and has the code that is run for all interrupts</li> | |||
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Revision as of 10:51, 18 September 2015
Please submit your answers to the following on CULearn. This assignment is due before class on September 23, 2015.
Choose the *most* accurate definition for the following terms/concepts:
- system call
- function call
- library call
- process
- thread
- fork
- execve
- file
- filesystem
- signal
- library
- kernel
- environment variable
- shell variable
- "exporting" a variable
Definitions:
- A system call that creates a new process by creating a logical copy of the current process.
- The part of the operating system that runs in supervisor mode on the CPU and has the code that is run for all interrupts