[SunHELP] Solaris

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:09:08PM -0800, bobo166 wrote:
> I have some very general questions about the Solaris operating system.
> 
> 1.  How is process management handled?

That's a bit of a large question, really, for a mailing list.

> 2.  What information is maintained about a process in the system?

Read the headers.  They come in SUNWhea.

> 3.  How is interprocess communication handled? (ex. semaphores)

http://www.bookpool.com/.x/agn77tai4m/sm/0132017997

> 4.  What CPU scheduling algorithm is used? (ex. round robin, shortest job first, etc.)

http://www.bookpool.com/.x/agn77t948n/ss/1?qs=Solaris+Internals

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen