Friday, December 11, 2009

The Minix Process Table


The complete state of a process is defined by the process' data in memory, plus the information in its process table slot. See picture for details.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Minix Kernel Data Structures

While studing the kernel data structures, it is a pain to go back and keep referring to the source in order to visualize the inter-relationships and references among the various pieces of data. I am currently working on some diagrams that will make it easier to visualize the layout of data in the kernel. I hope to upload these diagrams this weekend.