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Read : Chapter 3 and Process Review from "Linux kernel development by Robert Love" and answer following questions.

1.What is a process control block, and what is stored there?

2.What is the Linux equivalent? (book specific question)

3.What are the possible process states and what causes transitions between them?

4.Be able to reproduce figure. What is a context switch?

5.How are processes/threads created in UNIX and Linux?

6.How are address space, resources, execution sequence, and termination handled?

7.Understand fork(), exec(), clone(), wait(), exit(), kill() calls

8.What are zombie processes? Why do they exist?

9.What is the copy-on-write policy and how can it be used?