Hi Drieux, you forgot to mention the platform...
Linux: no PID 0 HP-UX: Don't have one handy, but remember seeing PID0 being "swapper", whatever that is.. ;) Solaris: See Linux. Best Regards Anders Holm Critical Path Technical Support Engineer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel USA/Canada: 1 800 353 8437 Tel Worldwide: +1 801 736 0806 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://support.cp.net -----Original Message----- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 May 2002 22:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what uid owns process 0? volks, I decided to help john to start by writing a ps Tree to process the data into the classic tree structures we all like: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/Sys/psTree.txt and I keep getting the output pid: 0 is owned by UNK and has children: 1 2 but if I do: [jeeves:~] drieux% ps -p0 PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND [jeeves:~] drieux% to verify..... ciao drieux --- ps: is this the part where I start considering hard drug abuse as a viable social alternative to perlMongering???? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]