From: Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999
XBD ERN #19,
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Definition: Process : An address space with one or more threads executing
within that address space, and the required system resources for those
threads.
Child Process: a new process created by another process [using fork()
or spawn()] is known as a child process.
... is known as a child process of that process.
[Otherwise the definition is meaningless - every process,
perhaps with the exception of init, is a child.]
Parent Process: The process that created a child process is known
as a parent process.
... as its parent process.
Utility
A utility program shall be either an executable file, such as might be
produced by a compiler or linker system from computer source code,
or a file of shell source code, directly interpreted by the shell.
Has it already been decided not to describe the #! construction?
(That would be a shame - all systems have it, and the details are diverging.
It sounds as if all Unix systems that implement some standard utilities
as csh or awk or perl script violate this standard.)
Andries
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