What is pid?

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What is pid?..

Answer / raj

process idntification no. which has genrated for every
process and this is the unique one.

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What is pid?..

Answer / bharath

Unix identifies every process by a Process Identification
Number (pid) which is assigned when the process is
initiated. When we want to perform an operation on a
process, we refer to it by its pid or ProcessId.

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What is pid?..

Answer / venu

Pid is basically process identification number and it's
required for executing any kind of tasks. pid will get
changed when you take the restart of server.

Regards,
Venu

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What is pid?..

Answer / kiruthiga,s

each and every process have a unique id by which the kernel
will identify a process. this is caled PID.

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