<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A supervisory program or supervisor is a computer program, usually part of an operating system, that controls the execution of other routines and regulates work scheduling, input / output operations, error actions, and similar functions and regulates the flow of work in a data processing system . </P> <P> It can also refer to a program that allocates computer component space and schedules computer events by task queuing and system interrupts . Control of the system is returned to the supervisory program frequently enough to ensure that demands on the system are met . </P>

The supervisor program of the operating system is also known as the