Process
A process is a program the OS has loaded and set running, together with everything it tracks to pause and resume that instance transparently — its program counter, stack, memory, and open files.
Depth 1 · Foundation
You can tell a program from a process and name what a process owns.
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You can tell a program from a process and name what a process owns.
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CPU virtualization - 2
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You know a process's "own memory" is an illusion built by virtual memory - every process sees the same addresses mapped to different physical memory.
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