Flashcard: Operating Systems Fundamentals — 10 carte

Process — creation method?

fork() and exec() system calls

Processes — definition?

Units of execution identified by PID.

Thread — resource sharing?

Share address space within a process

System calls — function?

Create or replace processes (`fork()`, `exec()`).

Page replacement — strategy?

FIFO, LRU, Clock algorithms

Process states — examples?

Ready, running, blocked.

Threads — relation to processes?

Share process resources, lightweight subprocesses.

Virtual memory — mechanism?

Paging and segmentation via tables.

Page replacement — algorithms?

LRU, Clock, FIFO.

Synchronization tools — purpose?

Prevent race conditions.