process ids

[Leo de Wit]

In article <171 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) writes:
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|	I have a need to be able to identify the parent of a process
|which is executing on the system.  The program which will be doing the
|identification will not be either the owner, or even the same user. 
|However, it will have root privilages.  The idea is to be able to kill
|an entire process group with one kill().  I know it's available
|somewhere since ps is able to display it.  
|
|	I have found an include file	<sys/proc.h>	which apparently
|is used by the system to keep track of this.  I can find no reference to
|it in any manual I have looked in.
|
|	Anybody have any ideas?

See the manual pages of getpgrp(2), killpg(2), setpgrp(2).
And getppid(2) for the parent process id (not needed to kill the group).

          Leo.