Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:19:57 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Javier Matos <javierlu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is child PID always minor to parent PID? Message-ID: <20051130161957.GE54383@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <001601c5f5c2$a77a0720$0301a8c0@mindcrash> References: <001601c5f5c2$a77a0720$0301a8c0@mindcrash>
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In the last episode (Nov 30), Javier Matos said: > Hi, I need to know if the PID of a child process is always higher to > parent PID because I made an algorithm to search a child and I want > to know if I can start searching for a process that have a higher > number than parent PID. No; if the parent PID is near PID_MAX (sys/proc.h), then it's likely that a child will have a low PID. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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