- The process is nothing but a running application or a running program.
- It is an active entity.
- Each process has attributes which is stored in a table called Process Control Block(PCB).
- PCB of all the process is maintained as linked list
Some of the common attributes of a process are:
- Process ID(Pid)
- Parent Process ID(PPid)
- State of the Process
- Scheduling Parameters.
- Program Counter(PC)
- Priority
- General Purpose Registers
- List of open file needed for process to execute
- List of open Devices.
Diag-1: Attributes of a process

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Categories: Operating system (OS)
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