FINAL
TRIM
SIZE
:
7.0
in
x
8.5
in
Glossary
paren
t
pro cess
ID
A
paren
t
pro cess
iden
tication.
A
lso
se
e
PID.
passw
ord
An
encrypted
sequence
of
c
haracters
used
b
y
HP-UX
to
iden
tify
an
authorized
user
and
to
p ermit
authorized
login
on
a
system.
path
name
A
sequence
of
directory
names,
separated
b
y
slashes,
whic
h
sp ecify
the
lo
cation
of
an
y
le
or
directory
.
PID
Pro
cess
iden
tity
(n
um
b er).
P
osix
Shell
POSIX-complian
t
v
ersion
of
the
Korn
Shell.
pro cess
An
in
v
o cation
of
a
program.
Generally
,
pro cess
refers
to
a
program
running
in
memory
,
while
program
is
the
co de
stored
on
disk.
pro cess
ID
A
unique
iden
tication
n
um
b er
assigned
to
all
pro cesses
b
y
the
op erating
system.
A
lso
se
e
PID.
pt
y
Pseudo-terminal.
RAM
random-access
memory
.
regular
expression
A
string
of
c
haracters
that
selects
text.
relativ
e
path
name
The
name
of
a
le,
listing
all
the
directories
leading
to
that
le
in
relation
to
the
curren
t
w
orking
directory
.
ROM
read-only
memory
.
DRAFT
2/5/97
11:31
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