What is context in operating system?



What is context in operating system?..

Answer / Anish Kumar Pandey

In an operating system, a context refers to the state of a running process. It includes information such as the program counter (PC), CPU registers, and stack. Context switching occurs when the OS switches between different processes by saving the current context and restoring the previous one.

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