On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:42:37 +0530, Satya Prakash Prasad said: > I am not sure how to practice the code snippet given in the text book. I > can understand the theory but do not find a way to practice. For example: I > want to read a process 'struct task_struct' to find it parent's process > identifier, how many tasks are in which state, creating kernel threads etc? cd /usr/src/linux find include -type f | xargs grep 'struct task_struct' | more Lots of hits. One of those is the definition of the structure. Study it and learn from that. The rest are where other things refer to the structure - much can be learned from studying what *else* refers to it and why. Enjoy.
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