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Process control block encloses all information about the process,it’s a data structure which contains the following;
- Process state-can be running,waiting etc.
- Process ID and parent process ID.
- CPU registers and program counter,program counter holds the address of the next instructions to be executed for that process.
- CPU scheduling information;such as priority information and pointers to scheduling queues.
- Memory management information ;for example ,page tables or segment tables.
- Accounting information;the user and kernel CPU time consumed,account number limits.
- I/O status information;devices allocated ,open files tables etc.
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