About the pid of the process

Question

I\'ve a somewhat silly question, if i have a series of processes that are created ... these are not necessarily some sort of inheritance, the pid of the processes have to be

Answer 1

This is determined by the Operating System.

In general, they are usually sequentially assigned by the OS. However, this behavior is not something to base decisions upon, since most operating system specifications state that the process ID allocation is not deterministic (ie: it could be random, and could change in a future version, etc).