What is Difference between thread and process?

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / venkatesh.t

thread is an independent flow of control within a process,composed of context and a sequence of instructions to execute.All process consists of at-least one thread
process is a running program,a program under execution.it is an active entity on a machine.A process has a context and a state

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / rajdeep gupta

Process is the execution of program.

If a program has different state execution then it is know as thread.

We can say that process is also a light weight thread.

ex - we work on MS-WORD then we type char simultaneously auto save the document and spell check , is a good example of thread.

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / vineet

thread is a light weight process and process is heavy
weight means to say process occurs many threads and
superset of threads and also says threads are sub set of
process

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / raju

Process is not Thread ,Tread is process.

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / kammari.krishnaiah

A programm in execution,as mentioned is a process.A time
share user program such as a complier is a process.
A thread is contain a peace of code and each processor
contain the one or more threads.

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / 6209

simply say thread is a light weight process(flow of
execution throw the process code)....
but process is heavy weight(heavey weight) process

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / ashish sharma

Process is a seprate one and a thread is pa part of any process .Process can't communicate other processes but thread do it easily

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What is Difference between thread and process?..

Answer / santhi

process
threads

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