What is a process? What are attributes of a process?

      

What is a process? What are attributes of a process?

  

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A process is a 'task' or a 'job' that an individual programme has pushed to the CPU. It is allotted a set of
resources and will encompass one or more threads. Its attributes fall under the headings of PROCESS
MANAGEMENT (including registers, PC, PID etc), MEMORY MANAGEMENT (pointers to CODE, DATA
and STACK segments) and FILE MANAGEMENT (root directory, CWD, UID, GID etc).
Titany answered the question on April 26, 2022 at 05:07


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