Process Management in Operating System

A process is a program in execution. Whenever a process executes, it passes through various states. However, these states may differ for different operating systems, but generally, at a time, it can have any one of the following five states:

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁: The initial state when a process has just started.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆: The process comes in this state after the start state and is waiting here to get the CPU time for its execution.
𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: In this state, the process has been assigned to a processor, and the processor executes its instructions.
𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: Whenever a process required user input or other resources, it moves into the waiting state. Once the desired operation is completed, the process goes to read state.
𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱: Once the process finishes its execution, it is moved to the terminated state, where it waits to be removed from the main memory.