What is the state of the processor, when a process is
waiting for some event to occur?
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Answer / ramu
They have asked the state of processor, so.. should it be
blocked/pending or it should be running?? as there is a
possiblity that processor may be executing other processes
right??
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Answer / santosh
Processor may be executing other task(high priority) or in
Idle state or in power saving mode in case device is
operating from battery.
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Answer / tejas gawade
processor will enter in "idle loop" in which "sleep"
instruction will be executed to move processor to sleeping
i.e. power saving mode.
In this state processor can accept interrupts and come out
of sleeping state.
So actually processor "do nothing" in this situation.
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