Multiple choice technology operating systems

Which is not a standard state of any HP-UX process

  1. running

  2. sleeping

  3. zombie

  4. printing
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Unix process states include running (actively executing), sleeping (waiting for I/O or resources), and zombie (completed but not yet reaped by parent). There is no 'printing' process state in standard Unix process management. Processes may print to stdout/stderr while in any state, but 'printing' is not a state itself. The standard states are running, interruptible sleep, uninterruptible sleep, zombie, and stopped.

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