Re: Child Detection

On 09/07/2005 07:21 pm, Richard Cooper wrote:
> Is there some way in Linux to detect if your process has any children?
> -
I have not found a good way to do this, but the following features cam
be used to do it:

1. sending kill to any process with ecx=0 will  return its status, this
    contains the parent process.

 2. It is possible to walk through all the process by using the /proc
     file system. 

AsmLib has functions to walk the /proc file system and return status
of a process.  I think most programs keep track of their processes and
do not need to do a search.

My kernel documentation says the PID's are assigned by increment the
parent id?  If this is true it is possible to do a quick search for children
by encrementing the parent id and checking status?

 all the best, jeff