Meaning of PID, PPID and TGID

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Nordlöw picture Nordlöw · Jan 15, 2013 · Viewed 44.9k times · Source

What does the Linux kernel acronyms PID, PPID, TGID stand for?

I stumbled upon them at strace-pids.

Answer

aldrinleal picture aldrinleal · Jan 15, 2013
  • PID: Process Id
  • PPID: Parent Process Id (the one which launched this PID)
  • TGID: Thread Group Id

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