koti

• Jul 11th, 2005

 

could you please send the answer ffor the below question. 
 
What is the defference between Thread and process.

Pattukkottai Arun

• Jul 22nd, 2005

 

A process is an OS-level task or service. A thread runs "inside" a process and may be virtual or simulated. Generally speaking, threads share resources like memory, where processes each have their own separate memory area, and need to take more elaborate steps to share resources.  
Another name for thread is "lightweight process" to distinguish it from the "heavyweight" system processes.  

Eldhos P Jacob

• Jan 22nd, 2006

 

Process is a program under execution

Thread is a part of program.

Sumeeth R Tewar

• Jul 12th, 2006

 

A process is an executing instance of a program.

A process may have multiple threads.

Jitendra Nayak

• Aug 17th, 2011

 

Every execution of a program is called process and every process is known as thread.

shraisy

 Profile Answers by shraisy 

• Aug 27th, 2011

 

1. A process is a job/task which runs at the background whereas a thread is a single line of execution in a program.
2. While creating a new process, each time new address space is allocated whereas in threads the address space is shared.
3. A process has a copy of its resources whereas a thread has its own program counter and stack