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### Official Answer
The operating system holds most of this information about active processes in data structures called process control blocks.
Any subset of the resources, typically at least the processor state, may be associated with each of the process' threads in operating systems that support threads or child processes.
Any subset of the resources, typically at least the processor state, may be associated with each of the process' threads.

> #### Official Annotation:
> A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information about a process.
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