What is thread & process?

Answer Posted / nirmalraj

Thread : A path of execution within the process; hold thread
kernel objects and address space(per thread).

Process: A heavy weight running instance of a program; hold
kernel objects and own address space(per process).

Kernel object: A Data structure maintains the statistical
information's about the process(for process) and threads(also)

Statistical Informations: register values,time stamps,
address, scheduling info.,owner of the process...etc.heaps
size,atomic values.

Note:
Threads runs the code inside the process and share the
address space with other threads inside the process i.e
share process handles.

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