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[PATCH] ps shows wrong ppid
authorDinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:39:44 +0000 (18:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:39:44 +0000 (18:39 -0700)
commit66ee38629134735537adb9c1a2fef83b418656f6
tree3dfc565a5afb27c1cec2f15040efae664bb57d5b
parenteb293c3e9cdd84f5ae1ab052af76d523cbbabcbe
[PATCH] ps shows wrong ppid

/proc shows the wrong PID as parent in the following case

Process A creates Threads 1 & 2 (using pthread_create) Thread 2 then forks
and execs process B getppid() for Process B shows Process A (rightly) as
parent, however /proc/B/status shows Thread 3 as PPid (incorrect).

Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/proc/array.c