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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: process ids
Keywords: utmp ps process id
Message-ID: <7431@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 2 Sep 88 19:38:28 GMT
References: <171@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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Why were there four different newgroups in the original posting?

In article <171@ispi.UUCP>, jbayer@ispi.UUCP wrote:

> 	I have a need to be able to identify the parent of a process
> which is executing on the system.

> 	Anybody have any ideas?

Parse the output of ps(1).  Something like sscanf("%s %d %d", name,
&pid, &ppid) should suffice.  If you do parsing the proc structure
you'll be lucky if the code survives to the next revision of the
kernel, much less to another system.  Not really portable, but within
SysV it should be.
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