tell me similarities between thread and process

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tell me similarities between thread and process..

Answer / khushi

Both have a parent process.
process has a process id same way thread has a thread id.
We can create a process within a process same way we can
create a thread within a thread
both process and thread has priorities.

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tell me similarities between thread and process..

Answer / sah

- each process must have at least one thread running within it, and each thread must be running within a process.
- each process gets it own address space and memory allocation by OS, where as thread makes use of its parent process resources.
- when parent process dies, all its child process dies, but v-v is not true

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tell me similarities between thread and process..

Answer / sairam

Thread is a light weight process that is the only
comparision.otherwise you cannot compare both
regards
sairam kulkarni

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tell me similarities between thread and process..

Answer / david

Asking for the similarities is the wrong question to ask. The real question should be what is the relationship.

a thread is contained inside a process. Multiple threads can exist within the same process and share resources such as memory, while different processes do not share these resources.

A Process is an instance of a computer program, consisting of one or more threads.

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