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Process control structures

• What is the physical manifestation of a process?
  • a program or set of programs
  • a set of data locations for variables and constants
  • memory to hold programs and data
  • stack for procedure calls, parameter passing

• PCB - Process Control Block
  • entity that defines a process to the OS
  • collection of process attributes: process identification, processor state and process control information.

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