Processes States
Explore the three main states of processes—running, ready, and blocked—and understand how an operating system manages transitions between these states to support process virtualization and efficient CPU scheduling.
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The three states of a process
Now that we have some idea of what a process is (though we will continue to refine this notion), and (roughly) how it is created, let us talk about the different states a process can be in at a given time. The notion that a process can be in one of these states arose in ...