• 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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• Process vs program
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