finding childs of a given parent process

[Sup]

Hi,

Is there any system call to get a list of
child pids for a given parent pid?

Thanx

[Mike Stroyan]

You can use pstat_getproc to list all processes, then sort out the ones you want by their parent process id data. See the attached example.

[Bill Hassell]

Another technique is to use the -H option for ps as in:

UNIX95= ps -f -H

The UNIX95= is required to turn on the -H (and -C and -o) options in ps. The -H option gives a complete hierarchy list for each parent.