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A thread is usually defined as a light weight process because an Operating System (OS) maintains smaller data structure for a thread than for a process. In relation to this, which of the following statement is correct?

a.

OS maintains only scheduling and accounting information for each thread.

b.

OS maintains only CPU registers for each thread.

c.

OS does not maintain a separate stack for each thread.

d.

OS does not maintain virtual memory state for each thread.

Answer: (b).OS maintains only CPU registers for each thread.

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