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Re: Who called Perl?

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 02, 2015 at 09:34 UTC ( [id://1118381]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Who called Perl?

On Linux it's 
$ perl -E 'my $parent = getppid();
           open my $fh, "<", "/proc/$parent/comm";
           print <$fh>'
bash

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The proc directory has a number of other interesting files.

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Re^2: Who called Perl?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2015 at 12:45 UTC

    ... with the caveat that orphaned processes get adopted by init (process 1). Might want to test for that.

    Also, there's a potential for race in there.

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