HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual page 203

parent process ID
A parent process identi cation.
password
An encrypted sequence of characters used by HP-UX to identify an
authorized user and to permit authorized login on a system.
path name
A sequence of directory names, separated by slashes, which specify the
location of any le or directory.
PID
Process identity (number).
Posix Shell
POSIX-compliant version of the Korn Shell.
process
An invocation of a program. Generally, process refers to a program running
in memory, while program is the code stored on disk.
process ID
A unique identi cation number assigned to all processes by the operating
Also see PID.
system.
pty
Pseudo-terminal.
RAM
random-access memory.
regular expression
A string of characters that selects text.
relative path name
The name of a le, listing all the directories leading to that le in relation
to the current working directory.
ROM
read-only memory.
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