Explain role of process control block?

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priyad84 • 350

Role of process control block

At any instance, a process will be having various information associated with it like identifier, state, priority, program counters, memory pointers, accounting information etc. Such information are stored in a data structure called as Process Control block (PCB).
It is an important tool that helps …

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That's A Great Answer but figure should have been given there... But that's fine, i found it helpful thnx.. @Sayali

8.8 years ago by priyad84 • 350

-->It can be said that the process control block defines the state of OS.

can u explain the above statement ? Actually i didn't understand it.

8.8 years ago by priyad84 • 350