Kernel Basics
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Kernel Basics — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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What Are Signals in an Operating System?
A signal is a limited, asynchronous notification the kernel delivers to a process to inform it of an event — such as a fault, a user interrupt, a timer expiry,…
Compare Different IPC Mechanisms (Pipes, Shared Memory, Message Queues)
Pipes offer simple, ordered byte-stream communication between related processes with kernel-managed buffering, shared memory offers the fastest raw throughput…
What is Mailbox-Based (Message-Passing) Communication?
Mailbox-based communication is an indirect message-passing model in which processes send and receive messages through a shared, kernel-managed mailbox (also ca…