Assertion: process's state | /r/HasProperty | blocked
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Source sentences:
text: A process is put into the BLOCKED state if it requests something for which it must wait.
text: A process is put into the BLOCKED state if it requests something for which it must wait.
text: When the process is in the blocked state, it is eligible for swapping to disk, but this is transparent in a virtual memory system, where regions of a process's memory may be really on disk and not in main memory at any time.
text: The process state is changed back to "waiting" when the process no longer needs to wait (in a blocked state).