Question

Process table and process control block store same attributes of a process.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Process Basics topic in section The Process of Unix

Answer 1

Correct option is (b) False

The best explanation: Both pcb and process table store attributes and information about processes. But the major difference between both is, pcb contains all the information about the process and is used in context switching while process table contains very few attributes of a process like registers, pid, parent pid.