> Bash does not represent current pid and parent process-id correctly
> in spawned processes.
It does; the situations you include in your message represent what
Posix calls a "subshell environment", and $$ does not change in those
cases. Both $$ and $PPID is set when a shell initializes. When a
subshell is created as a copy of the parent, $$ and $PPID are part of
the copied environment.
Chet
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