Difference between revisions of "Userland"
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Userland is anything outside of the kernel, that users [[process]]es of a system have access to. | Userland is anything outside of the kernel, that users [[process]]es of a system have access to. | ||
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| + | Processes live for a short time in userland (milliseconds) before being context switched by the [[kernel]]. This means that the kernel cleans up this process and lets another process have a go at being run. Usually only one process can run at the same time unless there is multiple cores/cpus which is the case nowadays. | ||
Latest revision as of 09:21, 28 March 2013
Userland is anything outside of the kernel, that users processes of a system have access to.
Processes live for a short time in userland (milliseconds) before being context switched by the kernel. This means that the kernel cleans up this process and lets another process have a go at being run. Usually only one process can run at the same time unless there is multiple cores/cpus which is the case nowadays.
