Becoming parent ...

[Jochen Manns, PI der Uni Bonn, 732738/3611]

Dear UNIX-Experts,

        perhaps some of you can give me an answer of two UNIX questions:
        - is it possible for a process to become a processes parent? In
          Detail: I've got a job manager starting processes and controlling
          them especially when they die to gather statistics and so on.
          Now if the job manager dies and restarts again there no problem
          to save its internal state i.e. all the processes it started and
          recover this information from a disk file but all the children
          have got some other parents (indeed, the new parent is always
          process 1). So how can I attach to those processes again. And:
          why aren't they killed when the job manager is killed (in fact
          we like the way the did NOT die, but I would like to understand
          this)?
        - is there a way to access (argc,argv) from anywhere in a program?
          In Detail: somewhere deeply nested in a library a subroutine
          descided that it will need the commandline arguments of the
          process but there is no way to get it through the usage of
          parameters. For me it would be enough to get the whole line
          instead of (argc,argv).
        We are running UNIX V.3 on a DG AViiON 300.

Thank you in advance

                        Jochen Manns
                        Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn
                        Nussallee 12
                        5300 Bonn 1
                        (West Germany)