Jan SchaumannAdvanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 7, Process Groups and Sessions
We look at how processes are grouped together and begin to develop an understanding of how a login session relates to the controlling terminal:
• each process belongs to a process group
• a session is a collection of one or more process groups
• process groups are used for distribution of (keyboard generated) signals and to implement e.g., job control in a shell (see next video)
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