How to Find Out More


To learn more about processes in the UNIX System, consult the following references. Here are some useful books discussing how processes work in the UNIX environment:

  • Bovet, Daniel P., and Marco Cesati. Understanding the Linux Kernel: From I/O Ports to Process Management. O’Reilly, 2000.

  • Feiler, Jesse. Mac OS X: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001.

  • Levi, Bozidar. UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management. CRC Press, 2002.

  • O’Gorman, John. The Linux Process Manager. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

  • Petersen, Richard. Linux: The Complete Reference. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2002.

  • Robbins, Kay and Steve Robbins. UNIX Systems Programming: Communications, Concurrency, and Threads. 2nd ed. Pearson Education (Prentice Hall), 2003.

  • Watters, Paul. Solaris 10: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2005.

There is a useful web page on UNIX processes from an appendix of an O’Reilly publication, Practical UNIX and Internet Security:

  • http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/puis/appc_01.htm

and some others providing a background of the concept of processes at:

  • http://helpdesk.ua.edu/unix/tipsheet/tipv3n3.html

  • and

  • http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Unix/Processes.html

and a printable .PDF file describing managing processes at:

  • https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/help/files/processes.pdf

These should provide background information as well as practical information.




UNIX. The Complete Reference
UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)
ISBN: 0072263369
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 316

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