Though it's not a big deal, I feel odd that I can't see the branch in my system... All children look like a self-contained process.

$ ps -efH 


philwong 21804     1  0 16:39 pts/15   00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf

philwong 21805     1  0 16:39 pts/15   00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf

philwong 21806     1  0 16:39 pts/15   00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf

philwong 21807     1  0 16:39 pts/15   00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf

philwong 21808     1  0 16:39 pts/15   00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf

philwong 21809     1  0 16:39 ?        00:00:00 ./stunnel new.conf



Philip

On 10 Apr, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Bri Hatch <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Philip Wong <[email protected]> voiced:

However, it sounds to me the PPID of the child processes should be the stunnel parent PID.

Yes, if the stunnel parent is still running.

With my example, if I kill PID 10764, all the stunnel processes will be gone.
So I expect that's the parent, then the others should have PPID "10764". Isn't it?

Try 'ps -efH' and you can see the parent/child relationship as a nice
indented tree.

I suspect you already killed the parent.  All of these are children.


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