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The relation and difference of process and program.
the differerence between these two are A program is a passive entity, such as a file containing a list of instructions stored on disk (often called an executable file). In contrast, a process is an active entity, with a program counter specifying the next instruction to execute and a set of associated resources.

The relation

A program becomes a process when an executable file is loaded into memory. Two common techniques for loading executable files are double-clicking an icon representing the executable file and entering the name  of the executable file on the command line (as in prog.exe or a.out).

why the status is divided into 5 states

the status of process is divided into five states because These names are arbitrary, and they vary across operating systems. The states that they represent are found on all systems, however.

Describe the content of a process control block.

a process control block contains many pieces of information associated with a specific process, including these points. Process state, program counter, CPU registers, CPU-scheduling information,Memory-management information.

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