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what is the difference between user level thread and kernel level threads? under what circumstances one better than another ?
written 7.8 years ago by gravatar for devikaraniroy devikaraniroy • 640 modified 3.9 years ago by gravatar for pedsangini276 pedsangini276 • 4.8k

Subject: Operating System

Topic: PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Difficulty: Medium
operating systems
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written 7.7 years ago by gravatar for devikaraniroy devikaraniroy • 640 •   modified 7.7 years ago

A thread is a flow of execution through the process code, with its own program counter that keeps track of which instruction to execute next, system registers which hold its current working variables, and a stack which contains the execution history.

A thread is also called a lightweight process. Threads …

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