Friday 6 July 2012

What is a PID? How is it useful when troubleshooting a system?

Purpose:
  • Any developer that has had to debug a multi-threaded applications will know how hard it can be to track an issue. In order to isolate the problem one has to be able to using the debugging tools that allow for the freezing of certain threads and selective debugging of others.
  • This is very simple prod to see if a developer has experience in debugging multi threaded applications and could be the start of a much deeper conversation about multi threading.

Potential Answer:
Process Identifier which is a unique Integer that identifies the OS process construct uniquely which helps with debugging and tracing in multi tasked applications.

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