ProcessID in *nix

[Fairlight]

Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> There's a POSIX system call, pid_t getppid(void), that returns
> the parent's process ID.  I'm not sure how one would get that in
> processing tables.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# fpgetppid - to be used with USER
print(getppid(),"\n");
exit;

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