Process Termination
There are many reasons for process termination:
- Batch job issues halt instruction
- User logs off
- Process executes a service request to terminate
- Error and fault conditions
- Normal completion
- Time limit exceeded
- Memory unavailable
- Bounds violation; for example: attempted access of (non-existent) 11th element of a 10-element array
- Protection error; for example: attempted write to read-only file
- Arithmetic error; for example: attempted division by zero
- Time overrun; for example: process waited longer than a specified maximum for an event
- I/O failure
- Invalid instruction; for example: when a process tries to execute data (text)
- Privileged instruction
- Data misuse
- Operating system intervention; for example: to resolve a deadlock
- Parent terminates so child processes terminate (cascading termination)
- Parent request
- Fatal error
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