Hey cameron..
thanks ! I discovered that the ps -ppid "parentID" would return the
list of child pids which works, but thanks..!
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au> wrote:
On 28Nov2014 13:19, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A test app does a fork, creates children processes.
> Is there a way to view the procTBL "ps" to be able to see that a
> process is a "child" process?
> I know you can see when a child has stopped, but the parent is still
> running.. but is there a way to see if there are "running" children,
> some attribute that denotes i'm a child?
> Or, is there some attribute that denotes the process has running children?
Every process has a parent process id (PPID), allowing you to deduce the
parent-child relationships.
The GNU ps "f" option will display the process tree with parent-child
relationships.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au>
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