ProcessID in *nix

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Jun 23 09:21:28 PDT 2004


Confusious (Jay Ashworth) say:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > 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;
> 
> Isn't there a way to do that as a one-liner on the command line?  perl
> -e or something?

perl -e 'print(getppid(),"\n");'

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