Re: getppid() returns cached value

Any idea how to work around this problem ?

Sorry, maybe I'm missing the point, but you haven't actually said what "problem" you are experiencing.

As wazoox said, getppid will return 1 once the original process has been killed. The orphaned child process gets "adopted" by pid 1 (init). So it all seems correct to me.

If you can explain what you actually want the script to do, and what it's doing instead, that would help a lot.

s^^unp(;75N=&9I<V@`ack(u,^;s|$.+\`|"$`$'\"$&\"$"|ee;/m.+h/&&print$&

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Re^2: getppid() returns cached value by pratik (Initiate) on May 26, 2005 at 13:32 UTC
Oops..here is the output I am getting if I use perl 5.8.2. `My PID is 24958 My PPID is 24958 after my parent is killed` [download] It is probably returning the cached value of Parent PID. But it works as expected if I use perl 5.6.1 `My PID is 25020 My PPID is 1 after my parent is killed` [download] My OS info : Linux version 2.4.21-4.ELsmp (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)) #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:52:56 EDT 2003 Thanks, Pratik	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: getppid() returns cached value
by pratik (Initiate) on May 26, 2005 at 13:32 UTC

My PID is 24958
My PPID is 24958 after my parent is killed
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My PID is 25020
My PPID is 1 after my parent is killed
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