Difference between process group and job?
What’s the difference between a process group and a job? If I type pr * | lpr then is it both a process group as well a job?
What exactly is the difference between a process group ID and a job ID?
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Why is the PGID of my child processes not the PID of the parent?
So I keep reading everywhere that this command should terminate all child processes of the parent process:
What does kill 0 do actually?
In the man page, it says: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ — ] pid … pid… Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things: 0 All processes in the current process group are signaled And I tried like this in … Read more
What is the purpose of abstractions, session, session leader and process groups?
I understand from Informit article that sessions and process groups are used to terminate descendant processes on exit and send signals to related processes with job control.
Why is process not part of expected process group?
I’m learning about the relationship between processes, process groups (and sessions) in Linux.