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Old 06-10-2002
skannan skannan is offline
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Question Child Process PID
Hi,
Can anybody solve this query?
A parent process forks 2 child processes. How does the child process know it's PID without the parent process sending it.
Apart from the "ps-ef" option, what other options are there if any?