a blocked state).
* Once the process finishes execution, or is terminated by the operating system, it is no longer needed. The process is removed instantly or is moved to the "terminated" state. When removed, it just waits to be removed from main memory.

Inter-process communication

When processes need to communicate with each other they must share parts of their address spaces or use other forms of inter-process communication (IPC).For instance in a shell

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