Processes Vs Threads Process: It is an execution unit where a program runs. The OS helps to create, schedule, and terminates the processes which is used by CPU. The other processes created by the main process are called child process. A process operations can be controlled with the help of PCB(Process Control Block). PCB contains all the crucial information related to processing like process id, priority, state, and contents CPU register, etc. Important properties of the process: - Creation of each process requires separate system calls for each process. - It is an isolated execution entity and does not share data and information. - Processes use the IPC(Inter-Process Communication) mechanism for communication that significantly increases the number of system calls. - Process management takes more system calls. - A process has its stack, heap memory, and data map. Thread: A process can have multiple threads, all executing at the same time. A thread is lightw...