Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 6, Process Control
In the last video lecture for this week, we look at process control: how new processes are started from an executable, what resources are shared between parent and child, and what happens when they terminate. In particular, we will look at the fork(2), exec(3), and wait(2) system calls. Be warned, though: there will be #zombies, so limber up (Rule #7).