Key Terms and Concepts

aborting a process

advisory locking

alarm system call

asynchronous

atomic

consumer process

core image

creat system call

fcntl system call

file locking

flock structure

ignoring a signal

interrupt

isatty library function

kill command

kill system call

link system call

lock file

lockf library call

mandatory locking

nohup command

pause library function

polling

producer process

race condition

raise library function

real-time signals

shlock command

sigaction structure

sigaction system call

signal blocking

signal catcher

signal delivery

signal generation

signal system call

signals

sigpending system call

sigprocmask system call

sigsuspend system call

sleep library function

stopping a process

unlink system call