Thanks a lot!

It works with one little change:

$ ps -p xxxx

  PID TTY          TIME CMD
29580 pts/4    00:00:00 bash

$ ps -p yyyy

   PID TTY      TIME CMD
  9556 pts/49   0:00 bash

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See the blank space? Depending on it presence, I have to take the forth or the fifth elemnt of the last split. It works changing this line:
my $parent = (grep {/^\s*\d+/} (`ps -p $parent_id`))[0];

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With this:
my $parent = " ".(grep {/^\s*\d+/} (`ps -p $parent_id`))[0];

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Now I have at least one blank and have allways to take fifth element. Thanks again for the code.
BTW, even if I work with UNIX, I must deal with different flavours (UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX...) and don't know if ps will output the same format everywhere (I'm going to test it).

And the worst thing, I've just been told to make it run on Window$ 8( Is there anyway to get rid of the ps calls?

In reply to Re: Re: Parent process name by deibyz
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