Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Under GNU/linux, the procps package contains not only the ps
>> command. But it also contains the command pstree.

> I don't see pstree in procps-3.2.7, perhaps I'm missing something.

You aren't. pstree is part of the psmisc package.
<http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/>

>> Though I didn't look at pstree's source code, I guess it is doing
>> its job by analyzing ppid's.

It does.

Ulrich