The unique public health functions and services are reflected in the core programs and in the. public health strategies by which those core programs are implemented. The more generic. maintenance and support functions are considered to be aspects of system capacity.
Also found in: Dictionary. livelock. /li:v'lok/ When two or more processes continuously change their state in response to changes in the other process(es) without doing any useful work. This is similar to deadlock in that no progress is made but differs in that neither process is blocked or waiting for anything.
The superblock is essentially file system metadata and defines the file system type, size, status, and information about other metadata structures (metadata of metadata).hen Linux opens a file, it also creates a file object, which holds data about where the file is stored and what processes are using it. The file object (but not the file data itself) is thrown away when the file is closed. Inode. An inode (short for index node) is a bunch of attributes about a file that Linux stores.