One of the best investments in time that a person with a keen interest in operating systems can make is to explore them from multiple angles. Operating system installation and configuration can go a ...

so basically no process stores the PID of its child processes in the /proc file system right?<br><br>so the only way to do this would be to go through every /proc/PID/status file and read the PPID ...

The /proc file system brings the processes on your Unix systems into view in some very useful ways, but only if you take the time to cd over to /proc and see all it can tell you. The /proc virtual ...