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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: process ids
Summary: tinkering with unix system tables ...
Keywords: utmp ps process id
Message-ID: <389@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 19:49:58 GMT
References: <171@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <171@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) writes:
>	I have a need to be able to identify the parent of a process
>which is executing on the system.

>	I have found an include file	<sys/proc.h>	which apparently
>is used by the system to keep track of this.  I can find no reference to
>it in any manual I have looked in.

anyone interested in playing with system tables should pick up my crash
program which was posted in comp.sources.misc earlier this summer.  it
contains code which will determine the process group id and parent
process id.

if you are interested in any other kernel table munging this program is
a good source of ideas ...
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