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Process related question

Hi all,

Consider the foll. piece of code:

char *p = (1MB) of storage

main()
{

*p = 200;
printf(" val = %d", *p)
}

Lets say I get a file a.out which needs to be run.

Please help me understand certain things:
1) how this file would be laid out in memory.
2) Since this would be a file, what filesystem
related activities would be done (inode ?)
3) Stack allocation and virtual addr. space (conceptual).

In essence I would like to understand the various OS
related actions with reference to a simple program like the above sttored on disk.

Regards,
ASM

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arut

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Hi All,

I am not making any assumptions, but rather want to understand the concepts. I have a a.out and run it.

What are the actions that the kernel would take?

Regards,
Arut

sunnycoder

Hi Arut,

The link I posted gives all those details. pls check the link

gheist

Any actions that execve() system call does.... (man execve to find out more), described in (2) and not in the checkable link

sunnycoder

ghiest
execve(2) hardly gives any information about memory layout and internals of memory management.

The link does talk about loading code into memory, different segments and paging