The 'process' concept
 

• Difference between a program and a process
• The unix process model, how are processes created ?
• Impact of multitasking on the process model
• process has states
• why do we need states and what are these states ?
• state transitions
• The influence of memory management on process state transition
• Study of a unix process state transition case
• The need for a Process Control Block
• What should be kept in a process control block, why ?