What would be the process state in a multi threaded process, in which threads are in different states (running, waiting, blocked etc)
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3$\begingroup$ Wouldn't it be a mapping from the threads to their individual states? $\endgroup$ – Dave Clarke Nov 8 '12 at 11:50
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In short, the lifecycle of thread does not interfere with the lifecycle of a process.
Processes and threads have different execution cycles; threads will execute and die while their process will continue to run until it gets a exit, truncate or die call due to normal execution (or in case of deadlock handling).
- If a process contains only one thread, then if the thread is running, the process is in its running state. Otherwise, it can go into ready, wait, or die.
- If a process contains multiple threads, it will execute until all jobs are completed. If a thread goes inactive it will not end a process; a process may enter ready state or be in running state.
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$\begingroup$ i may have not explained properly but i hope you get what i want to say.... $\endgroup$ – swapyonubuntu Nov 8 '12 at 19:36
