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The Application Binary Interface specifies the way software elements communicate within a program. +
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The act of collecting together disparate threads so all are at definitive points in their execution. +
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The basic data behind <i>scheduling</i> processes. +
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The process of sharing the processor (or other) time amongst competing needs. +
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The separation of the user's view of memory and the physical reality on any given machine. Usually involves translating addresses and may employ paging from backing store. +
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The sort of metadata which accompanies every file. +
The system used to maintain an open file. +
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The way memory is organised into logically consistent areas. +
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There are many ways of constructing a file system, even if different mechanisms <i>look</i> the same to a user. Here are some examples. +
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These are the <b>hardware</b> interfaces which provide the physical I/O for the computer. There may be a large variety in any given system. +
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This article covers software collections of associated variables (usually with mixed <i>types</i>) as in a C ‘struct’ or the data in a Java object. +
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This describes the major features of this site. +
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Threads are separate code sequences which can be
executed in parallel. In general, one <i>process</i> can have several
threads with the same memory context. +
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Unix on-line manual. +
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