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Chapter 4 Threads, SMP, and Microkernels Microkernels

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<strong>Threads</strong><br />

• Several actions that affect all of the<br />

threads in a process<br />

– The OS must manage these at the process<br />

level.<br />

• Examples:<br />

– Suspending a process involves suspending all<br />

threads of the process<br />

– Termination of a process, terminates all<br />

threads within the process

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