The networking software creates two special processes that handle initiation of remote processes and communication between the remote processes and their local parents. These processes are tasks initiated by the DSSSUPPORT library on the local host and the remote host. Their names are TASKING/MESSAGE/HANDLER and TASKING/STATE/CONTROLLER. One instance of each of these tasks appears in the mix at a host as long as any remote processes or parents of remote processes are running at the host. These tasks also continue to appear in the mix for a few minutes after all remote processes have terminated.