Process States in Operating System:

Process state describes the nature of current activity in a process. As process executes, its state changes. A process may be in one of the following states:


New: The process is being created (it is not yet in memory)


Running: The process has an instruction that is being executed


Waiting (Blocked): The process is waiting for some event to occur.


Ready: The process is waiting to be executed


Terminated: The process has finished execution and is no longer in memory

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