From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Silambu Chelvan Subject: About PID...???!!! Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030910142344.8594.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi All, I have been using linux for quite some time. I wonder how the PID is assigned by the kernel. Is there anything like range of PID for each user? In my machine I could see PIDs of 256, 389, 413 etc. Does this mean that there are almost 413 processes running? Please explain..... with regards, M. SilambuChelvan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs