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Helmut Karlowski skreiv:

>> I should have been more precise. I need to find the ppid of ANY 
>> process, not just the calling process.
> 
> There is a "dirty" way. Like the old top does. It uses /proc and Fnctl.
> 
> You will have access to the kernel-structure proc then.

Yes, I've seen this. I couldn't find ppid in the available structure, 
but that's probably because I didn't look hard enough.

> But I would also like to know whats wrong with /kern. Is it too slow?

Basically there's nothing wrong with /kern. If this is the way to go, I 
will use it. But parsing text is slower and generates more code than if 
the information was available "un-encoded".

Jo Even