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What are the attributes of process control block?

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What are the attributes of process control block?
posted May 28, 2018 by anonymous

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Process control block contains all the essential information related to process. Essentail information can be process Id, list of open files, registers, memory, process state etc. Whenever a process waiting for CPU is re-scheduled for CPU, operating system fetches and re-load the process state based on information present in PCB.

answer May 29, 2018 by Harshita
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