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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why does the 'pid' keep changing every time? Post 302383640 by alister on Wednesday 30th of December 2009 11:36:14 AM
Old 12-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ss3944
How does this pid work?
The process id (PID) is an integer assigned by the operating system at process creation time that uniquely identifies that process. On most operating systems, it's simply an incrementing counter; on OpenBSD, PID generation is randomized. Two processes cannot share a PID, but PID values may be reused. The PID does not change during the lifetime of a process. A different PID is a different process.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ss3944
By using the pid, Can I know which process it belongs to?
If you know the PID, you can use ps to find the process info.

Code:
ps -p PID

 

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DTRUSS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 DTRUSS(1)

NAME
dtruss -- Trace system calls and userland stacks using DTrace SYNOPSIS
dtruss [-acdefholLs] [-t syscall] [-n name -p pid command] DESCRIPTION
The dtruss utility traces system calls and (optionally) userland stack traces for the specified programs. The following options are available: -p pid Trace the process with PID pid. -n name Trace the process with name name. -t syscall Trace the specified syscall only. -a Print all details. -c Print syscall counts. -d Print relative times (in microseconds). -e Print elapsed times (in microseconds). -f Follow the children processes. -l Force printing PID / TID. -o Print time spent on CPU. -s Print userland stack backtraces. -L Don't print PID / TID. -b bufsize Specify the DTrace buffer size. EXIT STATUS
The dtruss utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
dtrace(1) HISTORY
The dtruss utility comes from the DTraceToolkit and was first imported into FreeBSD 9.0. AUTHORS
Brendan Gregg BSD
August 26, 2010 BSD
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