What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

Answer / siddharoodh

U-area is assosiated with executing process, process
accesses all the process related information and set up
environment that process can execute easily, without need to
worry of process table entries ...

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

Answer / shilpa

This contains the private data that is manipulated only by
the Kernel. This is local to the Process, i.e. each process
is allocated a u-area(user area).

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

Answer / akhilesh singh

Whenever a process is create its required a small temporary memory area to execute ourself.This area is private for all other task or operation except process.This temporary area is used only by kernel to control and execute process.

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

Answer / niru

U-area is a kernel data structure which contains process control objects/information which is process specific and private to kernel ( not accessed by user )... which is loaded by MMU when context switch for a process takes place.

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

Answer / shahnwaz siddique

UNIX maintain the information about a process in two areas.The process table and the u-area.The user area of a process is located at the upper end of the process address space and is accessible only when running in kernel mode

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What do you mean by u-area (user area) or u-block?..

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