A process is the abstraction used by the Linux operating system to represent a running program. Each process in Linux consists of an address space and a set of data structures within the server kernel. The address space contains the code and libraries that the process is executing, the process???s variables, its stacks, and different additional information needed by the kernel while the process is running…
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