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| What does it mean to fork a process? |
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| Forking a process means that one process is started within another. All forked processes are running as child processes to another. |
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| A process tree is formed when within one parent process several other processes are spawned within it. |
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| Top is used to show system resources in use by the system processes. |
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| The PID for init is always 1 because it is the parent or root process of all processes on linux. |
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| PPID stands for parent process ID. A PPID is the identification number of any process that has spawned a child process. It is the ID number of the process that has spawned a process. |
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| The Killall command is a command that kills all processes that have a certain name. |
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