Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Login shell? Message-ID: <12313@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 5 Oct 88 16:32:36 GMT References: <3ed799bc.103e8@hi-csc.UUCP> <13851@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 7 In the same area: ksh has an environment variable "PPID" which holds the parent PID. It is set at startup and is read only. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me