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Explain PID and ps

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edited Feb 6, 2013 at 17:14

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You shoudshould be able to follow the PPID chain backwards from the process you are interested in. But if, say, A launched B, B launched C, and B finished, now C's parent is init (PID 1). To access information about process PID, you do ps -l -pPID.

You shoud be able to follow the PPID chain backwards from the process you are interested in. But if, say, A launched B, B launched C, and B finished, now C's parent is init (PID 1).

You should be able to follow the PPID chain backwards from the process you are interested in. But if, say, A launched B, B launched C, and B finished, now C's parent is init (PID 1). To access information about process PID, you do ps -l -pPID.

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answered Feb 6, 2013 at 17:06

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You shoud be able to follow the PPID chain backwards from the process you are interested in. But if, say, A launched B, B launched C, and B finished, now C's parent is init (PID 1).