What is the process in operating systems?

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Processes run in the background and provide a common language that allows the operating system to interface with the installed hardware & software to support any applications running on the system.

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A process is an environment in which a program executes.

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Process is simply a unit of execution. Means to say for our sake how the things go it is unit collectively task that accompalishes one particular need. It is really not unit because a unit microprocessor operation is something else.

A Process is meant by its execution environment which is sensefull by saying that it is active program entry that has its state and context, A share on resources defined by by computer system like memory ,registers and others.

Microprocessor's convention says it is sequence of microoperations that run and perform on job,And a well defined context at which instant it is executing the task. Process is active program entry that takes a part of CPU. For more reasons go for OS fundas in any OS book or query me . Rupesh K Joshi rupesh_joshi@sify.com,rupesh.joshi@gmail.com

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