Programmatically get parent pid of another process?

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I think the simplest thing would be to open “/proc” and parse the contents.

You’ll find the ppid as the 4th parameter of /proc/pid/stat

In C, libproc has a get_proc_stats function for parsing that file: see Given a child PID how can you get the parent PID for an example.

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