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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
copyrights:
- Copyright (C) 1988, 1998 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)
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glossary-type: term
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- role: glossary-member
  uid: ../glossary-general
term: executing task
text: |
  The task state entered by a task after it has been given control of the
  processor.  In SMP configurations, a task may be registered as executing
  on more than one processor for short time frames during task migration.
  Blocked tasks can be executing until they issue a thread dispatch.
type: glossary