hi, i need to change the parent of a process, basically i need to kill a process in between in a family of processes and change the parent of a process to a process one level higher. any idea as to how this could be done. thanks ksr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/