Concurrent Processing

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  1. POSIX
    • Portable operating system industry standards
    • standard for operating systems
  2. Deadlock
    something cannot move because something is in its way
  3. _system()
    passes command to the command interpreter which executes the string as an OS command
  4. _execl()
    what is it and how many args?
    • Loads and executes new child processes
    • 1st - exe filename
    • 2nd - same as the first becoming argv[0]
    • 3rd - same as first becoming argv[1]
  5. _spawnl()
    create and exe a new processs
  6. createProcess()
    • creates a new process and its primary thread.
    • the new process runs in the security context of the calling process.
  7. terminateProcess()
    how many args and what are they?
    • terminates the specified process and all of its threads
    • hProcess[in] - the handle to the process to be terminated
    • uExitCode[in] - the exit code to be used by the process and threads terminated as a result of this call
  8. WaitForSingleObject()
    • waits until the specified object is in the signaled state or the time-out interval elapses
    • If this handle is closed while the wait is still pending , the function's beaviour is undefined
    • DWORD
    • WINAPI
  9. WaitForMultipleObjects()
    waits until 1 or all of the objects are in the singled state or the time-out interval elapses
  10. sleep(5000)
    • suspends the exe of the current thread until the time-out interval elapses
    • 5 seconds
  11. What is an OS
    • To manage the resources
    • allows all resources to access the hardware the same way
  12. Real time OS
    Example?
    • multi-user, multi-tasking, embedded
    • Unix
  13. Ditributed
    not IOS
  14. beginthreadex
    • use if you are using c++ and launching thread
    • must use reinterpret_cast<handle>()
  15. Program
    • List of instructions that perform a task 
    • Word = Application software -stuff we use
    • Windows = System software - stuff the computer uses
    • Backups = Utility software
    • Havoc = Middleware -software that isn't used by itself
  16. Process
    • Program being executed
    • Code that is running
    • Requires processor
    • Requirements for run
    •      Memory, state, call stack
    • needs at least 1 thread
  17. Thread
    • inside a process
    • one of many paths of execution
    • one machine only
  18. what is do threads share?
    • global memory
    • static variables
    • heap(new)
  19. what don't threads share?
    • stack - local variables, function params
    • HANDLE/IO
    • CPU state
    • exception

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 djon
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 Concurrent Processing
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2013-05-25 18:10:45
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