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thread: a standalone construct

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thread1 CONSTRUCTOS threadSILBERSCHATZ · SCHEDULED

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Computer science

the smallest sequence of instructions a scheduler can manage on its own, sharing its process's code and data.

In an operating system, a thread is the smallest sequence of instructions that a scheduler can manage on its own. Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne describe it in Operating System Concepts as a basic unit of processor use that holds its own program counter, register set, and stack while sharing the code, data, and open files of the process that owns it. The referent is a run of executable instructions inside a program, and the unit is one schedulable flow of control. It differs from every other meaning because nothing here is spun, written, or cut into metal: the strand is a path of execution, and multithreading means several such paths advancing inside one process at once.[1]

Unit
One schedulable flow of control within a process
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Presence of an independently scheduled instruction sequence with its own stack and program counter

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References

  1. Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., & Gagne, G. (2018). Operating system concepts (10th ed.). Wiley.

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