... 2001) Process Identification n n n Each process, or independently scheduled execution context, has its own process descriptor Process descriptor addresses are used to identify processes n Process ... Process Descriptors n The kernel maintains info about each process in a process descriptor, of type task_struct n See include /linux/ sched.h n Each process descriptor contains ... number of processes in system) CS591 (Spring 2001) Process Descriptor Storage n n Processes are dynamic, so descriptors are kept in dynamic memory An 8KB memory area is allocated for each process, ...