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Glossary
ppid
P
aren
t
pro
cess
ID.
pro
cess
An
in
v
o
cation
of
a
program.
Generally,
process
refers to
a program
running
in
memory,
while program
is the
co
de
stored
on
disk.
process
ID
A
unique
iden
tication
n
um
b
er
assigned
to
all
pro
cesses
b
y
the
op
erating
system.
A
lso
se
e
PID.
pt
y
Pseudo-terminal.
RAM
random-access
memory
.
regular
expression
A string
of
c
haracters
that
selects
text.
relativ
e
path
name
The
name
of
a
le,
listing
all
the
directories
leading
to
that
le
in
relation
to
the curren
t
w
orking
directory
.
restore
The
function
of
returning
a
windo
w
to
its normal
size from
a maximize
d
or
minimize
d
state.
OSF/Motif
windo
w
managers,
suc
h
as
the
HP
VUE
W
orkspace Manager,
provide
this
function.
Se
e
minimize
and
maximize .
R
OM
read-only
memory
.
root directory
The highest lev
el directory of the hierarc
hical le
system, from whic
h all
other les branc
h. In HP-UX, the slash (
/ )c
haracter refers to the \ro ot
directory." The ro ot directory is the only directory in the le system that
is
its o
wn \paren
t directory."
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