Tag
process-lifecycle
- Sep 15, 2025 Memory Pressure, Kill Decisions, and What an App Can Observe Before It Dies How the platform ranks processes for termination under memory pressure, why a backgrounded app is not safe, and which signals give an app warning before the kill. mobile computing
- Jan 16, 2025 What a Kill Fault Looks Like to the Kernel: Signals, Freezes, and Orphans The difference between SIGTERM, SIGKILL, and freezing a process, what each leaves behind in sockets and locks, and why reaping behaviour decides whether a container restarts cleanly. devops
- Apr 1, 2022 Standard I/O, Terminal Allocation and Exit Status Propagation How a runtime wires stdin, stdout and stderr for a container process, when a pseudo-terminal is allocated, and how the exit status travels back to the caller. virtualization