Operating Systems

Thread is best defined as which of the following?

• A. A synchronization variable used to control access to shared resources by multiple processes.
• B. A situation where two or more processes are blocked forever, each waiting for a resource held by another.
• C. The smallest unit of execution within a process that can be scheduled independently. ✓
• D. A memory management scheme that eliminates external fragmentation by dividing memory into fixed-size blocks called pages.