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About the types of services

Describes the asynchronous services used by a client program.

There are a variety of asynchronous services that a client program can utilise. The main types are:

  • service provided by the kernel

  • service provided by a server thread, running in user mode

  • service provided by a device driver

  • service provided in the same thread

Parent topic: Types of Service

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