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

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

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit label used to uniquely identify objects in computer systems. The term Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is also...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Provider Identifier (NPI) for Health Care Providers". Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved February 14, 2007. "National Provider Identifier Standard...

Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user account, user group, or other security principal in the Windows NT family of operating...

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...

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

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

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)...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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)...

The Market Identifier Code (MIC) (ISO 10383) is a unique identification code used to identify securities trading exchanges, regulated and non-regulated...

start it, or it should die for any reason. Init is typically assigned process identifier 1. In Unix systems such as System III and System V, the design of...

Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) (formerly Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID)) is an open standard, unique identifier of financial instruments...