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| | | | | When an application is launced in linux, it becomes a process. A process is a special instance provided by the operating system that inclused all the resources that are used by the running app. A process in linux has a five digit identifier called process id or PID and it represents process for all it's life cycle. There cannot be two process with same PID but once the process is terminated same PID can be reused for another process if needed. | |
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| | | | | If you have a process ID, you can look at what files/ports a process has open, see details about how the process was started, trace it to see what work it's doing, or wait for it to complete its work. Process IDs are pretty cool! | |
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