Please describe what is the PCB, and give some sample
fields?

Answer Posted / kammari.krishnaiah

PCB(Process cControl Block)
each process is reapracented in the operating system by a
process control block.It is also called as the task control
block.
it contain many peace of information assosiated with a
specide process including these :
1.Process state
2.Process number
3.program counter
4.Registers
5.Memory limits
6.list of open files e.t.c

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