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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:48:49 +0000
From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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Hi,

Is there an 'easy' way of getting the PID of a parent process feeding a
command's stdin?

e.g.

cat something | foo | bar

I need to get the PID of foo while running as bar...

-Kp

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