In this chapter, we cover
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Operating system support for concurrent and distributed systems
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Processes and threads, as fundamental constructs provided by operating systems for building distributed systems
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Process and thread examples in C
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Ada task example
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(2008). Concurrency in Operating Systems. In: Practical Distributed Processing. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-841-8_4
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