GATE CS 2011 – Question 15

Multiple choice 1 mark Question 15 2011

Question 15

MCQ 1 marks · −0.33 Operating Systems

A thread is usually defined as a "light weight process" because an operating system (OS) maintains smaller data structures for a thread than for a process. In relation to this, which of the following is TRUE?

A On per-thread basis, the OS maintains only CPU register state. B The OS does not maintain a separate stack for each thread. C On per-thread basis, the OS does not maintain virtual memory state. D On per-thread basis, the OS maintains only scheduling and accounting information.

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GATE CS — Computer Science & IT 2011 Operating Systems

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