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process identifier

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Definition of process identifier words

  • noun Technical meaning of process identifier (operating system)   (PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process. 1
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