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

Answer Posted / laxmi narayana.moru

process control block is also known as task control block..
which contains the complete information of the process...
1.process state
2.programme counter register
3.cpu information
4.i/o information
5.accouting information
6.process priority
7.cpu registers

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