Question: Process B has two user-level threads, this OS does not provide kernel-level thread. If Thread needs to open a file on disk and therefore issues

Process B has two user-level threads, this OS does not provide kernel-level thread. If Thread needs to open a file on disk and therefore issues a blocking system call, what would be the state of Process B and Thread 2, respectively?

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