Please describe the different state of a process?
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Answer / hemant chand dungriyal
Only five state:-
1. New
2. Ready
3. Running
4. Waiting/Suspended/Blocked
5. Halted/Terminated
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Answer / hardik joshi
A process states can be classified as :
Two-state model:
Ready and Running
Five-state model:
New, Ready, Running, Blocked/Waiting, Terminated
Seven-state model:
New, Ready, Running, Blocked, Blocked Suspended, Ready
Suspended, Terminated
Note: Unix uses 9 states ..
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Answer / laxmi narayana.moru
from the birth of the process..process is executed in
various states,which are as follows..
1.new state(wating for main memory)
2.ready state(current in memory.waiting for cpu time)
3.running state(currently in execution by cpu)
4.waiting state(for some resources,interrupts,child process)
5.terminate state
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Answer / samir11
different states of a process are new,running,ready,wait &
exit.
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