Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid

[Helge Hafting]

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. 

Helge Hafting
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