Outubro 2008
Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos -  ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br                                                          2
State associated with execution environments and threads
Execution environment
Thread
Address space tables
Saved processor registers
Communication interfaces, open files
Priority and execution state (such as
BLOCKED)
Semaphores, other synchronization objects
Software interrupt handling information
List of thread identifiers
Execution environment identifier
Pages of address space resident in memory; hardware cache entries