GATE CSE 2017 Set 1 | Question: 18

Question

Threads of a process share

• A. global variables but not heap
• B. heap but not global variables
• C. neither global variables nor heap
• D. both heap and global variables

Answer 1

Thread share all resources of process except local storage like - register , stack.

Ans: Option C

Answer 2

Threads of a process is shares both Global variables and Heap........

Answer 3

Threads share:

• Address space
• Heap
• Static data
• Code segments
• File descriptors
• Global variables
• Child processes
• Pending alarms
• Signals and signal handlers
• Accounting information

Threads have their own:

• Program counter
• Registers
• Stack
• State

So D is correct.

Ref: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CourseNotes/OperatingSystems/4_Threads.html