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Glossary
parent process ID
A parent pro cess identication.
Also see
PID
.
password
An encrypted sequence of c
haracters used by HP-UX to identify an
authorized user and to p ermit authorized login on a system.
path name
A sequence of directory names, separated b
y slashes, which sp ecify the
lo cation of any le or directory.
PID
Pro cess identity (numb er).
Posix Shell
POSIX-compliantversion of the Korn Shell.
process
An invocation of a program. Generally,
process
refers to a program running
in memory, while
program
is the code stored on disk.
process ID
A unique identication number assigned to all pro cesses b
y the op erating
system.
Also see
PID.
pty
Pseudo-terminal.
RAM
random-access memory.
regular expression
A string of characters that selects text.
relative path name
The name of a le, listing all the directories leading to that le in relation
to the currentworking directory.
ROM
read-only memory.
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