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A process has at least 1 thread and may have many threads, while 1 thread must live within a process

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A thread must live or run within a process, while a process has at least 1 thread running.

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A thread is a sub process in other words one process can contain multiple threads.


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What is the difference between process and thread in net?

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What is the difference between lightweight and heavy weight process?

Light weight is called as a thread which runs inside a process and a heavy weight is a system process. As the thread share the memory of heavy weight then we can say that it is not taking any additional resources(memory) to execute. As a process is a combination of one of more then one threads and each process is having the separate memory location so it is very easy for thread to communicate with each other as compare to two process communicate because thread communicate within same memory but process communicate with other process having different memory location. Here we can consider light weight as a thread and heavy weight as a process.