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Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and unprivileged processes. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root. | Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and [[#Unprivileged_Process|unprivileged processes]]. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root. | ||
=Unprivileged Process= | =Unprivileged Process= | ||
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Privileged Process
Traditional UNIX implementations distinguish two categories of processes for the purpose of performing permission checks: privileged processes and unprivileged processes. A privileged process is a process with its effective user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root.