Monday, January 5, 2015

Process Group

Each process is owned by a user and a user group defined in /etc/passwd ad /etc/group respectively.  Each process also belongs to one process group.  The child process will belong to the same process group as the parent.  All commands in a pipeline belongs to the same process group.

The process group is just a construct to make it easier to send signal or get information from a group of related processes.  A process group is related to a job from user's perspective.

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