From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: getppid Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3310 Posted: Thu Sep 16 22:48:59 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 03:49:43 1982 From: Doug GwynDate: 13 Sep 82 23:33:18-EDT (Mon) getppid is documented under getpid(2). It is implemented on a PDP-11 by having the parent PID returned in R1 on the getpid() system call (a trivial update if your kernel doesn't do this).