[Mono-list] Getting parent process

[Mariano Benedettini]

Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:03 -0300, Mariano Benedettini wrote:
> 
>>How can I build a process tree ?
>>Say, starting from the current process id, get the parent of it and 
>>successively.
>>With Mono.Unix.Process.GetCurrentProcessId() and 
>>Mono.Unix.UnixEnvironment.GetParentProcessId() I can get the current 
>>process and its parent, but cant go further :-(
> 
> 
> The short answer is that you don't, at least not while sticking strictly
> to POSIX.  I don't know why, but that information is not exposed.
> 
> This doesn't mean it's not possible, it just means it's not in POSIX
> (and thus not portable).  pstree(1) reads the Linux /proc file system to
> build the process tree; see:
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/psmisc/psmisc/src/pstree.c?rev=1.32&view=markup
> 
>  - Jon
> 

Thanks for the tip, I was almost sure that looking in /proc was the only 
way (now I'm totally sure).
I don't care about portability so I'll gonna make it that way.

Mariano.

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