Chapter 2 Process Management Tasks

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Assigning Process Handling (PH) Capability

Creating a Process (PH Capability Required)

Using CREATEPROCESS

Using CREATE

Activating a Process (PH Capability Required)

Suspending a Process (PH Capability Required)

Delaying a Process

Requesting a Process Break

Deleting Processes

Deleting a Process with TERMINATE

Deleting a Child Process with KILL (PH Capability Required)

Aborting a Process

Aborting the Entire User Process Structure

Interrogating Processes

Determining the Parent Process (PH Capability Required)

Determining a Child Process (PH Capability Required)

Determining Source of Activation (PH Capability Required)

Determining Process Priority and State (PH Capability Required)

Determining Process Information

Determining Accumulated CPU Time for a Process

Passing Information to a Process

Rescheduling a Process (PH Capability Required)

Providing Communication Between Processes

• Create a new process

• Activate a suspended process

• Suspend an executing process

• Delay a process from executing

• Request a process break

• Delete a process

• Interrogate a process

• Pass information to a process

• Reschedule a process

• Provide communication between processes

• Intrinsics requiring only standard capabilities, (for example, IA, BA, SF)

• Intrinsics requiring PH capability in addition to standard capabilities