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The operating system holds most of this information about active processes in data structures called [[process control block]]s. Any subset of the resources, typically at least the processor state, may be associated with each of the process' [[Thread (computer science)|threads]] in operating systems that support threads or ''child'' processes.
The operating system keeps its processes separate and allocates the resources they need, so that they are less likely to interfere with each other and cause system failures (e.g., [[deadlock (computer science)|deadlock]] or [[thrashing (computer science)|thrashing]]). The operating system may also provide mechanisms for [[inter-process communication]] to enable processes to interact in safe and predictable ways.
==Multitasking and process management==
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