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

On AIX, you will often see bigger (e.g. 7-digit) PIDs and they are not necessarily allocated semi-sequentially (though I seemed to be cycling in increments of 2 when I tested; there was another user on the machine, so it may not mean much).

Fresh login on an AIX 5.3 machine:

$ ps
     PID    TTY  TIME CMD
 1060910 pts/27  0:00 -ksh
 1155224 pts/27  0:00 ps
$