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Assignment 3
1. Explain the concept of a process and mark its differences from a
program?
program is a group of instructions to carry out a specified task whereas
the process is a program in execution. While a process is an active entity,
a program is considered to be a passive one. There exist a many-to-one
relationship between process and program, which means one program can invoke
multiple processes or in other words multiple processes can be a part of the
same program.

2. What is process spawning?


Process spawning is a technique in which OS creates a child process by the request
of another process. When OS creates a child process by the request of the parent
process. How parent and child executes? Parents and children execute at the same
time.
3. Give three examples event of an interrupt?
1) Clock interrupt.
2) I/O interrupt.
3) Memory fault.

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