PID ==>
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.
 
(1996-12-09)
 
  
 
  
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