Elucidate on the different ids used in the unix process?



Elucidate on the different ids used in the unix process?..

Answer / Swamjeet Singh

In Unix, the following are the different process IDs:
1. Process ID (PID): A unique identifier assigned to each running process.
2. Parent Process ID (PPID): The PID of the process that created it.
3. Session ID (SID): Identifies a collection of processes belonging to the same session, which share an environment and a terminal.
4. Job ID: Identifies a group of related processes managed as a single job by the shell.

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