On 28Nov2014 13:19, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > A test app does a fork, creates children processes. > Is there a way to view the procTBL "ps" to be able to see that a > process is a "child" process? > I know you can see when a child has stopped, but the parent is still > running.. but is there a way to see if there are "running" children, > some attribute that denotes i'm a child? > Or, is there some attribute that denotes the process has running children? Every process has a parent process id (PPID), allowing you to deduce the parent-child relationships. The GNU ps "f" option will display the process tree with parent-child relationships. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au&gt; ERROR 155 - You can't do that. - Data General S200 Fortran error code list -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org