NAME

Proc::Find::Parents - Find parents of a process (up to the root)

VERSION

This document describes version 0.631 of Proc::Find::Parents (from Perl distribution Proc-Find-Parents), released on 2018-01-17.

SYNOPSIS

FUNCTIONS

None are exported by default, but they are exportable.

get_parent_processes($pid[, \%opts]) => ARRAY

Return an array containing information about parent processes of $pid up to the parent of all processes (usually init). If $pid is not mentioned, it defaults to $$. The immediate parent is in the first element of array, followed by its parent, and so on. For example:

 [{name=>"perl",pid=>13134}, {name=>"konsole",pid=>2232}, {name=>"init",pid=>1}]

Currently retrieves information by calling pstree program. Return undef on failure.

Known options:

• method => STR (default: proctable)

  Either proctable (the default, which means to use Proc::ProcessTable) or pstree (which uses the pstree command, which might not be portable between Unices).

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Proc-Find-Parents.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-SHARYANTO-Proc-Util.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Proc-Find-Parents

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Proc::ProcessTable. Pros: does not depend on pstree command, process names not truncated by pstree, works on Windows. Cons: a little bit more heavyweight (uses File::Spec, Cwd, File::Find).

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018, 2014, 2013 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.