ps_ppid: Parent pid or parent process of a process

In ps: List, Query, Manipulate System Processes

Parent pid or parent process of a process

Description

ps_ppid() returns the parent pid, ps_parent() returns a ps_handle of the parent.

Usage

ps_ppid(p = ps_handle())

ps_parent(p = ps_handle())

Arguments

p	Process handle.

Details

On POSIX systems, if the parent process terminates, another process (typically the pid 1 process) is marked as parent. ps_ppid() and ps_parent() will return this process then.

Both ps_ppid() and ps_parent() work for zombie processes.

Value

ps_ppid() returns and integer scalar, the pid of the parent of p. ps_parent() returns a ps_handle.

See Also

Other process handle functions: ps_children(), ps_cmdline(), ps_connections(), ps_cpu_times(), ps_create_time(), ps_cwd(), ps_descent(), ps_environ(), ps_exe(), ps_handle(), ps_interrupt(), ps_is_running(), ps_kill(), ps_memory_info(), ps_name(), ps_num_fds(), ps_num_threads(), ps_open_files(), ps_pid(), ps_resume(), ps_send_signal(), ps_shared_libs(), ps_status(), ps_suspend(), ps_terminal(), ps_terminate(), ps_uids(), ps_username()

Examples

p <- ps_handle()
p
ps_ppid(p)
ps_parent(p)

ps documentation built on April 19, 2023, 1:08 a.m.