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I don't understand what the boxes on this diagram are meant to represent.

It feels like an elaborate mechanism to draw something wrong in the hopes people will correct it.

FWIW, I also don't really understand what the boxes are supposed to represent, given that the arrows represent dependencies like PID <-- process. I thought a PID was an attribute of a process?

To me, a block diagram might show [CPU Scheduler], [Virtual Device Manager], [VFS Manager], [Memory Manager], [Interrupt Handlers], etc...

Of course, my knowledge of Linux internals is limited and perhaps it has a separation of the concept of PID and process where there is a literal dependency.

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