What are the main states that a process can be in? What does each state indicate about the status of the process?
What will be an ideal response?
A process can be in many states during its life. Some of these states are:
Ready A process in the ready state is ready to use the CPU, but the CPU is being used by another process.
Running A process is in the running state if it is executing by using the CPU.
Waiting A process is in a waiting state if it is waiting for an event to occur, such as a child process to terminate or the disk drive to finish read (or write).
Zombie A process is in the zombie state if its parent terminates before it.
Finish A process is in this state after it terminates (finishes its execution).
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