Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment
Week 6, Process Limits and Identifiers
Having looked at the process layout in memory, how it starts and is terminated, we now learn that certain properties are restricted via resource limits, specified as a "soft" and a "hard" limit, with only the superuser being able to raise the latter.
A process also has a process ID (PID) and a parent process ID (PPID). More
on these process relationships in our next videos.