System Calls for Process Control

Question 1

fork()

Answer 1

fork()

used to create a child process in the image of the parent process

Question 2

wait()

Answer 2

wait()

Blocks the calling process until its child process exits or signal is recieved

Question 3

execve()

Answer 3

execve()

Executes the program pointed to by the

Question 4

exit()

Answer 4

exit()

Terminates the current process and performs a cleanup afterwards

Question 5

kill(sig,PID)

Answer 5

kill(sig,PID)

Send a signal to another process to terminate it