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Nations Team Linux + Study
Linux+ Certification
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02/24/2009

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What does it mean to fork a process?
Definition
Forking a process means that one process is started within another. All forked processes are running as child processes to another.
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What is a process tree?
Definition
A process tree is formed when within one parent process several other processes are spawned within it.
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What is the cmd TOP?
Definition
Top is used to show system resources in use by the system processes.
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What PID is INIT?
Definition
The PID for init is always 1 because it is the parent or root process of all processes on linux.
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What is a PPID?
Definition
PPID stands for parent process ID. A PPID is the identification number of any process that has spawned a child process. It is the ID number of the process that has spawned a process.
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What is the Killall CMD?
Definition
The Killall command is a command that kills all processes that have a certain name.
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