Re: What's the meaning of a stopped process

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AFAIK, there is no a status which indicates a process paused. How does
kernel deal with a paused process? Or, any other ways to implement a
paused process?

2010/8/25 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi..
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 15:53, Parmenides <mobile.parmenides@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some signals, such as SIGSTOP, SIGTSTP, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, can cause a
>> process to stop. What's the meaning of a ***stopped*** process? Or,
>> what happens in kernel if a process stop by these signals?
>
> "Stopped" is actually paused... while "terminated" is "ended".
>
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>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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