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id: t70u
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title: Processes
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tags: [operating-systems]
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created: Friday, June 21, 2024
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# Processes
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Programs are sequences of machine instructions stored in a file. However they do
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not work by themselves. Something needs to load the file's intructions into
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memory and direct the CPU to run the program. The OS does this via processes.
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A process **is a running instance of a given program**. It can be thought of as
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a container in which a program runs. This container includes:
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- a copy of the program code loaded into memory
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- a memory address
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- other information about the state of the process
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## Related notes
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