Viewing a Process
Solaris is a multitasking environment in which a number of programs run at the same time. This means that many users can be active on the system at the same time, running many jobs (processes) simultaneously. Each Solaris program can start and stop multiple processes while it is running, but only one job is active per processor at any given time while the other jobs wait in a job queue. A parent process forks a child process, which, in turn, can fork other processes.
Note
The term fork is used to describe a process started from another process. As with a fork in the road, one process turns into two. You’ll also see the term spawn used—the two words are interchangeable.
A process is a single program running in its own address ...
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