Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:51:35 +0000 | From | Karen Lenska <> | Subject | Process Table-Process Control Block |
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Hi,
I wish to be personally CC'ed the answers/comments posted to the list in response to this post
My questions are about Process ID, Process Control Block (PCB), and Process Table (PT), and thread table
My old notes state that:
1- Each Process is allocated an identifier: Process ID (PID)
2- The PID indexes a process Table (PT)
3- Each process table entry contains a pointer to a relevant process ' PCB
However, this link
http://foldoc.org/?query=process+table&action=Search
states instead that every process has an entry in the table. These entries are known as process control blocks.
So I am just wondering, are the process table entries pointers to the processes' PCB or rather the PCBs contents?
I think these entries include (among others) pointers to the PCBs considering the latter expected size.
A second question do we use any hashing to index the process table since the PIDs values seem not be allocated sequentially
Actually how PID values are allocated and how are they used to index the process table (and afterwards the PCBs)
at the end, i presume that each process pcb contains a pointer to the process thread table and that the thread table has more and less the same structure than the process table, exempt that PCB contents is different from Thread control block
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