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Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0 |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:34:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> More to the point: even if we could distinguish the "no ppid" from
>>>> "unkown ppid", it's unclear how Elisp code could make use of it.
>>> Lisp code cannot, but a primitive written in C can.
>>
>> Like what can it do?
> It can differentiate between FreeBSD 4.3 and FreeBSD 7.2 if they use a
> different style of `process root', or between Linux 1.2.X, 2.4.X and
> 2.6.X. Right now, Emacs sets `system-type' to "berkeley-unix" on more
> than one BSD system. They might be easier to detect at C level.
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking: what can C code (or Elisp code
for that matter) do when the ppid is somehow not found (i.e. there's no
ppid available, but the process might have a parent).
Stefan
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, (continued)
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Andreas Schwab, 2008/12/22
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/22
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/22
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/22
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/22
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Roland Winkler, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Giorgos Keramidas, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/24
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/23
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/24
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/24
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/24
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/24
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/30
- Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30