Procmgr_source

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?#

/services/system/procmgr
/services/system/proc

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