Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:14:35 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kpielorz@tdx.co.uk Subject: Re: Getting PID of parent pipe? Message-ID: <199811241614.IAA08037@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <36555721.8E3D2CDF@tdx.co.uk>
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>Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:48:49 +0000 >From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> >Is there an 'easy' way of getting the PID of a parent process feeding a >command's stdin? >e.g. >cat something | foo | bar >I need to get the PID of foo while running as bar... If "bar" is something you can control/modify, it would seem that getppid() would be an appropriate tool. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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