[Linux-disciples] perl parent vs. child vs. process group -- killing

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:59:58PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> Presumably there's some way to do this, since pstree does it.

A quick scan through pstree.c didn't immediately reveal how
pstree discovers the child pids; the scan reveals how it
walks the linked list of child pids, but not how it figures
out those pids to begin with. Perhaps others will have more
luck than I did:

http://laniels.org/psmisc_src/src/pstree.c

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