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Describe how a process might move through the various process states. Create specific reasons why this process moves from one state to another.
A new process begins in the new state. When the process has no bars to its execution, it moves into the ready state. It waits in the ready state until it gets time in the running state. It runs for a while and issues a command for file input. The process is moved into the waiting state until the I/O has been completed, at which time it moves into the ready state to await another turn in the running state. Eventually it gets back to the CPU and runs until it needs access to a part of the program that is on secondary storage. It moves into the waiting state until the needed pages are brought in; then it moves back to the ready state. It gets its third shot at the CPU and finishes, and moves into the terminated state.
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