No, a thread can't create aprocess, because the environment of the thread is a part of a process which created this thread.
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A thread is basically a lightweight process.
Processes do not execute, it is the threads within a process that actually execute. All processes have at least one thread of execution, the main thread. If the main thread falls from scope, the process ends, taking all threads with it. This can lead to undefined behaviour if the threads are not terminated gracefully from within the main thread before it falls from scope.
Thread
A program is an executable. A process is an executable that has been loaded into working memory and is currently executing the program. A thread is a thread of execution within a process. Every process has at least one thread, but threads can spawn additional threads as required to allow concurrent operations to be performed near-simultaneously.
A thread and a process are same but a minor difference is there. Process executes a program completely without splitting whereas a thread splits a program into smaller tasks and then execute them separately.And then combine the final result. that is why a process is often called as Heavy weight and a thread is called as light weight.