A computer process is a running instance of a program, including
all variables and other states, or simply it's defined as a program in
execution. Now we will see how this task or process is implemented in
Linux kernel. The description of the characteristics of a process is
given in the structure task_struct.
Read on over at OS Weekly.
Defining Task (Process) Structure in Linux Kernel
Posted on Monday, April 10 2006 @ 5:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck