Chapter 10. Process Management
Processes are the primary abstraction an operating system uses to represent running programs. Unfortunately, the meaning of the term process varies widely. On most general-purpose operating systems, such as UNIX and Windows, a process is seen as a resource container that manages the address space and other resources of a program. This is the abstraction that is supported in ACE. Some operating systems, such as VxWorks, do not have processes at all but instead have one large address space in which tasks run. The ACE process classes are not pertinent for these operating systems.
In this chapter, we first explain how to use the simple ACE_Process wrapper class to create a process and then manage child process termination. ...
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