{"id":377,"date":"2024-06-28T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=377"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:13:39","slug":"what-is-thread-in-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/cs-it\/operating-system\/what-is-thread-in-operating-system","title":{"rendered":"What is Thread?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A thread is a light weight process. Here light weight means the instructions and context (attributes) will be lesser than the process.<\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\r\n<li>Each thread belongs to exactly one process.<\/li>\r\n<li>Each thread represents a separate flow of control.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/cs-it\/operating-system\/what-is-system-call-in-operating-system-os\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/cs-it\/operating-system\/what-is-cpu-scheduling-and-its-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a> <br \/><strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-an-operating-system-and-its-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is an operating system and its types?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread is a light weight process. Here light weight means the instructions and context (attributes) will be lesser than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,3],"tags":[103,104],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-system","category-cs-it","tag-flow-of-control","tag-what-is-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}