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UWA week 37 (2nd semester, week 7) ↓

Processes and Queues (all 4)

3:42am Thu 14th Sep, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> When we are executing our commands and creating processes out of them, I have done so in a for loop,

I don't understand what you mean "...in a for loop". You'll only ever be creating one new process at any one time, so I'm unsure what role a loop has. ??

> are we meant to be creating new processes at the same time that the CPU is running a process?

Only the single process running on the CPU can create a new process, by calling spawn, so I'm afraid I don't understand your question.