Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid

[Tim Schmielau]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Tim Schmielau wrote:
> 
> >
> >I'm trying to reconstruct the complete history of processes from the 
> >BSD accounting records. However, this is not very useful if a large 
> >fraction of the processes look as if they were started by init.
> >
> >The following program will print the history in a form vaguely resembling
> >pstree output from the accounting file:
> >  
> >
> Just having those original ppids won't really help you, if the process
> is long gone with no trace of what it was.  Consider adding logging to
> "fork()" and "exec()" instead of doing this. Then you can reconstruct
> history all the way back to the correct executables. 

Why should the process get lost with no trace of what it was - are you 
questioning reliability of BSD accounting?
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