December 2018
Beginner
320 pages
8h 57m
English
All processes on CentOS 7 are descendants of the first system process, known as systemd. An existing process (parent) duplicates its own address space using a fork system call to create a new process (child) structure. Each new process is assigned a unique PID for tracking process state, CPU usage, memory usage, and other characteristics. PIDs are generally assigned in ascending order when a new process is created. The PID 1 is assigned to the systemd process. The PID and PPID (short for Parent Process ID) are the attributes of each process running on a Linux system.
PPID is the PID of a parent process that starts the child process. If a parent dies, that process is known as an orphan process. For a long ...
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