I need to know the name of the parent process. 
using getppid function I can get the process id 
of the parent process. How do I translate parent
pid to a name.

Is there a way to do it in in perl without invoking ps command.


thanks.

perlcoder <a@a.com> writes:

> I need to know the name of the parent process. 
> using getppid function I can get the process id 
> of the parent process. How do I translate parent
> pid to a name.
>
> Is there a way to do it in in perl without invoking ps command.

From what I've been able to find in a few minutes of searching, you
can't do this portably on unix. using the output of `ps` may very well
be the "best" way to go about it, since ps is at least part of POSIX.

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On 17 Jul 2008 10:18:49 -0700 perlcoder <a@a.com> wrote: 

p> I need to know the name of the parent process. 
p> using getppid function I can get the process id 
p> of the parent process. How do I translate parent
p> pid to a name.

p> Is there a way to do it in in perl without invoking ps command.

Get Proc::ProcessTable from CPAN.

Ted