On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:32 AM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: [..]
I am assuming here that the ppid is a sub-process id. Basically, use any field that constitutes a GUID as the key for each child hash.[..]
other way around, ppid - parent process id.
Given a Pid the system needs to know whom the Parent is, so that when the child exits it knows which process gets the SIG_CHLD.
ciao drieux
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