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Re: How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen()

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  Re: How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen() Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-04-08 07:43 -0700
    Re: How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen() Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-04-08 20:28 +0100
      Re: How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-09 08:35 +1000

#2844 — Re: How to get a PID of a child process from a process openden with Popen()

> 	p = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split("kdesu -u test program"))
> 
> How can I aquire the PID of the program which kdesu starts?
You can run "ps --ppid <p.pid>" and get the line containing test program.
The first field there should be the child process id.

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Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com>
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#2871

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:43:41 -0700, Miki Tebeka wrote:

>> 	p = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split("kdesu -u test program"))
>> 
>> How can I aquire the PID of the program which kdesu starts?
> 
> You can run "ps --ppid <p.pid>" and get the line containing test program.
> The first field there should be the child process id.

This will fail if the kdesu process has terminated at that point (the
documentation doesn't say whether it waits for the child to terminate).
Once a process' parent has terminated, it's PPID will become 1 (i.e. it
will be "adopted" by the init process).

There isn't a robust solution to the OP's problem. It's typically
impossible to determine whether one process is an ancestor of another if
any of the intermediate processes have terminated.

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#2882

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> There isn't a robust solution to the OP's problem. It's typically
> impossible to determine whether one process is an ancestor of another if
> any of the intermediate processes have terminated.

Upstart and gdb can both detect forks and follow the child. But I
think that's getting into some serious esoteria that's unlikely to be
of much practical use here.

Chris Angelico

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