From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
To: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:03:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41FF45DA.80404@hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0502010035480.19436@gockel.physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Tim Schmielau wrote:
>
>I'm trying to reconstruct the complete history of processes from the
>BSD accounting records. However, this is not very useful if a large
>fraction of the processes look as if they were started by init.
>
>The following program will print the history in a form vaguely resembling
>pstree output from the accounting file:
>
>
Just having those original ppids won't really help you, if the process
is long gone with no trace of what it was. Consider adding logging to
"fork()" and "exec()" instead of doing this. Then you can reconstruct
history all the way back to the correct executables.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-01 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-31 21:38 [RFC] "biological parent" pid Tim Schmielau
2005-01-31 22:04 ` linux-os
2005-01-31 22:09 ` Michael Buesch
2005-01-31 23:39 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-02-01 9:03 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2005-02-01 8:59 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-02-01 0:07 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-02-01 9:07 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-02-01 16:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-02-01 18:02 ` Tim Schmielau
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