Delve into UNIX process creation (IBM developerWorks)

[Posted January 5, 2007 by cook]

Sean Walberg explores UNIX process creation in an IBM developerWorks article. "Examine the life cycle of a process so that you can relate what you see happening on your system to what's going on within the kernel. System administrators must know how processes are created and destroyed within the UNIX® environment in order to understand how the system fits together and how to manage misbehaving processes. Similarly, developers must understand the UNIX processes model in order to write solid applications that run unattended and won't cause problems for system administrators."