Thanks,
Seems so logical.....
Yaron Kahanovitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Paul Lalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, beginners@perl.org
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:59:02 PM (GMT+0200) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: How to get a list of child processes (Unix systems only)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Indeed our code solves the problem but not efficiently.
> Your have to iterate over all running processes in order to filter the child
> processes.
>
> I wondered if there is a possibility to directly get the child processes.
No. In UNIX, every process records its parent pid but the parent does
not store its children's; you do that inside your program. This is
because when a child changes state it would have to inform its parent
and the parent has to keep track of it. This is too much overhead and
would slow down the system.
BTW, a child process means only the first level. What you are talking
about are all of a process's descendants.
--
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by
doing them."
Aristotle
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