How to determine which is the parent process ?

[webdevraj]

Hi

I had 2 process, eg(AProcess and BProcess). i am invokeing Bprocess from AProcess. How BProcess will determine or identify that Bprocess is invoked by AProcess or some other process. i need a solution that should be in C that can be implement in winodws or linux.

Hope somebody will help me..

thanks in adcance
webdev raj

[gpraghuram]

Hi

I had 2 process, eg(AProcess and BProcess). i am invokeing Bprocess from AProcess. How BProcess will determine or identify that Bprocess is invoked by AProcess or some other process. i need a solution that should be in C that can be implement in winodws or linux.

Hope somebody will help me..

thanks in adcance
webdev raj

Make sure that processA spawns the processB with a specified paramter and in processB check for that parameter.
If it is of the same value then it means it is started by processA.

Check whether this can help you.

Raghuram

[rasmiranjanbabu]

Hi

I had 2 process, eg(AProcess and BProcess). i am invokeing Bprocess from AProcess. How BProcess will determine or identify that Bprocess is invoked by AProcess or some other process. i need a solution that should be in C that can be implement in winodws or linux.

Hope somebody will help me..

thanks in adcance
webdev raj

If u r doing this program in Linux/UNIX,
then the Parent Process ID(PPID) value is always less than the Child Process ID.
U can use fork(), etc.
There are so many System Calls are there.