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What isthe difference between a 'thread' and a 'process'?

Answer Posted / kchik

Main difference is:
Threads share the resources and address space of the process
spawning the threads.

Processes run in independent address spaces and have their
own resources between the parent and child processes.

Other differences:
Threads can communicate between threads directly.

Processes require user mode switches and full context switch.

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