process state

Question

When parent process executes fork system call process moves into
a) created state
b)ready state
c)running state
d)zombie state

Answer 1

Parent process has already begun execution and hence can not be in created (new) state

Running state is the state of a process while running. But a process just forked can't start running until the child process is created and its pid returned to it. Till then it'll be in READY state.

Zombie state is a state of a process when the process has terminated but it's id is still in the process table (for parent to check its exit status)

Comments

yes you are right ... i dnt know how can i do this type of mistake ...

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To reduce these type of mistakes check why other options  are not correct..

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ohk i will consider .. :-) pls check other answers they are correct or no ... no one reply for that

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Created state is same as new state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_state