Process control block in Linux

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How to extract PCB in linux? or Is there any kernel module available to read it?

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The closest Linux equivalent is the task_struct; however, that's only used inside the kernel. It's not exported to userspace.

All information on running processes on Linux is exposed via procfs, which is mounted at /proc. See man proc for details on what's available and where.