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Yes, fairly obviously - you can run two or more copies of most programs - I routinely have about 5 copies of vim running, and each of those is a separate process. As to how, the OS loads the executable file, creates a process and then tells that process to start executing the file contents.
Short answer, yes. A single core cpu(a processor), can run 2 or more threads simultaneously. These threads may belong to the one program, or they may belong different programs and thus processes. This type of multithreading is called Simultaneous MultiThreading(SMT).
A single processor can run only one instruction at a time: it is impossible to run more programs at the same time. A program might need some resource, such as an input device, which has a large delay, or a program might start some slow operation, such as sending output to a printer.
A thread is generated and owned by a process. It cannot be shared. There are a whole lot of security considerations that make doing so a bit of a nightmare. Best to save thread state somewhere that can be accessed by another process.
after reading and searching about OS and process and threads, I checked on wiki and it said,
A computer program is a passive collection of instructions, a process is the actual execution of those instructions. Several processes may be associated with the same program; for example, opening up several instances of the same program often means more than one process is being executed.
Now is it possible for a program to have more than one process and I am not including the possibility of running more than one instance of the same program. I mean one instance of one program is running, is it possible for a program to have more than one process? If yes, how? If no, why not?
I am a newbie in this, but damn curious :) Thanks for all your help..
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