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From the user’s point of view, the operating system processes programs according to the program call entered. From the operating system kernel’s view, however, the computer does not process a program, but a process derived from it. Programs are executable files, located anywhere in the file system, and a process is a context of the operating system kernel, which can run independently and which executes a program.
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Hantelmann, F. (1997). Programs and Processes. In: LINUX Start-up Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60749-3_4
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