Process ID

Process ID definition - hacker
All software runs within an operating system concept known as “a process,” and each program running on a system is, therefore, assigned its own process ID, or PID.

See Also: Operating System Software.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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