Process Control Block(PCB)

  • It is a data structure that contains all relevant information about a process.
  • Each process has one unique PCB.
  • It is also termed as Process Descriptor (Pd).
  • To execute a process, the OS will create a data structure that contains all the information about a process called PCB. It is also being termed as a context of a process.

Some of the important fields present in the process control block are:

  • PID
  • States
  • Scheduling Parameter
  • Program Counter
  • CPU registers
  • Pointer to the other PCB
  • List of open files
  • List of open devices like keyboard, mouse

All these PCB’s are present in one master Process Control block.

Diag-1: Process Control Block(PCB)

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