Process State Processes may be in one of 5 states. New-The process is in the stage of being created. Ready-The process has all the resources available that it needs to run,but the CPU is not currently working on this process's instructions. Running-The CPU is working on this process's instructions. Waiting-The process cannot run at the moment,because it is waiting for some resource to become available or for some event to occur.For example the process may be waiting for keyboard input,disk access request,inter- process messages,a timer to go off,or a child process to finish. Terminated-The process has completed.- Process State • Processes may be in one of 5 states. • New - The process is in the stage of being created. • Ready - The process has all the resources available that it needs to run, but the CPU is not currently working on this process's instructions. • Running - The CPU is working on this process's instructions. • Waiting - The process cannot run at the moment, because it is waiting for some resource to become available or for some event to occur. For example the process may be waiting for keyboard input, disk access request, interprocess messages, a timer to go off, or a child process to finish. • Terminated - The process has completed