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Unformatted text preview: processes ± Process control block contains all of the information that is required for the OS to manage the process, including its current state, resources allocated to it, priority, and other relevant data ± The most important states are Ready, Running and Blocked ± The running process is the one that is currently being executed by the processor ± A blocked process is waiting for the completion of some event ± A running process is interrupted either by an interrupt or by executing a supervisor call to the OS 7...
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- Fall '08
- ANDAIAMNITCHI
- Operating Systems, Process Control Block, running process, Anda Iamnitchi, Systems Lecture
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