What is pid?
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Answer / raj
process idntification no. which has genrated for every
process and this is the unique one.
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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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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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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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