systems, process and thread identifiers are all multiples of 4, but it is not part of the specification. User identifier (UID) Group identifier (GID) Handle...

identity, identification (the process of identifying), or an identifier (that is, an instance of identification). An identifier may be a word, number, letter...

operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier (GID) and...

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit label used for information in computer systems. The term Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is also used...

A unique identifier (UID) is an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. The...

the 2010 Westmere microarchitecture Intel 64 processors also support 12-bit process-context identifiers (PCIDs), which allow retaining TLB entries for...

Service also refer to numeric GIDs. The group identifier is a necessary component of Unix file systems and processes. In Unix systems, every user must be a member...

persistent identifier (PI or PID) is a long-lasting reference to a document, file, web page, or other object. The term "persistent identifier" is usually...

Provider Identifier". HHS. 21 November 2000. Retrieved July 16, 2019. "National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) National Provider Identifier (NPI)...

groups are identified by a positive integer, the process group ID, which is the process identifier of the process that is (or was) the process group leader...

services (processes) as well as those that were stopped. They can display information about the services, including their process identifier and group...

ending the process's lifetime. If the parent fails to call wait, this continues to consume the process table entry (concretely the process identifier or PID)...

systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output resource, such as a...

indexing process extracts identifiers from the article abstract and puts those in a field called Secondary Identifier (SI). The secondary identifier field...

the process (almost invariably an integer) and, in a multiuser-multitasking system, data such as the identifier of the parent process, user identifier, user...

identifier through a process of combining the smaller identifier with specified values placed in specified bit-positions within the larger identifier...

its process identifier. Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes...

child has died. After the zombie is removed, its process identifier (PID) and entry in the process table can then be reused. However, if a parent fails...

Ninoy Aquino Airport. In the United States, the IATA identifier usually equals the FAA identifier, but this is not always the case. A prominent example...

ISO 9362 is an international standard for Business Identifier Codes (BIC), a unique identifier for business institutions, approved by the International...

a+b would be an identifier, not an addition. Whitespace in identifier is particularly problematic, as if spaces are allowed in identifiers, then a clause...

The International Chemical Identifier (InChI, pronounced /ˈɪntʃiː/ IN-chee) is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard...

process.h is a C header file which contains function declarations and macros used in working with threads and processes. Most C compilers that target...

elsewhere. As no new process is created, the process identifier (PID) does not change, but the machine code, data, heap, and stack of the process are replaced...

intervertebral disc, commonly called a herniated disc BBC Programme Identifier, a unique identifier for a BBC television or radio programme brand, a season or...

entries of a given process; the OS may avoid reusing per-process identifier values to delay facing this. Alternatively, per-process hash tables may be...

quasi-identifiers to create a unique identifier. Quasi-identifiers can thus, when combined, become personally identifying information. This process is called...

The other process, the parent, receives from fork the process identifier of the child, which is always a positive number. The parent process passes this...

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia. It converts atmospheric nitrogen...

system call will send a signal to another process. pid is the process identifier of the receiving process. signum is the signal number (in mnemonic format)...