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Thread and Process

Threads share the same address space and have direct access to the process's data, allowing easy communication between threads of the same process. Processes have separate address spaces and data, so communication requires interprocess communication. Threads have little overhead while processes have more overhead, and threads can easily control each other while processes have limited control over other processes.

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Thread and Process

Threads share the same address space and have direct access to the process's data, allowing easy communication between threads of the same process. Processes have separate address spaces and data, so communication requires interprocess communication. Threads have little overhead while processes have more overhead, and threads can easily control each other while processes have limited control over other processes.

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The major difference between threads and processes is

1. Threads(Light weight Processes) share the address space of the process that
created it; processes have their own address
.2.Threads have direct access to the data segment of its process; processes have
their own copy of the data segment of the parent process.
3. Threads can directly communicate with other threads of its process;
processes must use interprocess communication to communicate with sibling
processes.
4. Threads have almost no overhead; processes have considerable overhead.
5. New threads are easily created; new processes require duplication of the
parent process.
6. Threads can exercise considerable control over threads of the same process;
processes can only exercise control over child processes.
7. Changes to the main thread (cancellation, priority
change, etc.) may affect the behavior of the other threads of the process;
changes to the parent process does not affect child processes. If we consider
running a word processing program to be a process, then the auto-save and
spell check features that occur in the background are different threads of that
process which are all operating on the same data set (your document).

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