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Quick Guide to the Process Manager Source


We're schizophrenic about how we used the words "Process Manager". We use those words to mean "that part of the operating system which does the virtual memory mangement and process creation". But we also use the term "process manager" in the more limited sense to mean:
  • process creation/destruction
  • a resmgr that responds to reads on /proc to get process and thread information


Where is the source?


What are the good bits?

Functional Area Related Files
kernel implementation of threads and processes services/system/procmgr/*.*
resource manager API to the process manager services/system/proc/*.*


Overview

For a more detailed look at the design of the process manager, refer to fixme: we need a process manager architecture document