02-01-2004
printing ppid,child pid,pid
question: for the below program
i just printed the value for pid, child pid and parent pid
why does it give me 6 values? i assume ppid is 28086
but can't figure out why there are 5 values printed instead of just two!
can someone comment on that!
#include<stdio.h>
#define DIM 8
int main()
{
int pid, i, ans;
int arr[DIM] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8};
pid = fork();
printf("%d\n",pid);
printf("%d\n",getpid());
printf("%d\n",getppid());
}
======
the output is
$./a.out
0
28873
28872
28873
28872
28086
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