by I have a program that forks, creating a child, and this child forks
again, creating a child of its own. Both child and sub-child continue
running for the life of the program.
I need for the main parent program to have the process-id of its child
(that's easy), and the process-id of the child's child.
The only way I can figure out how to do this is to create an unnamed
pipe befor the first child is created, and have the child's child write
its process-id into the pipe.
This seems like alot of overhead for one integer to be passed.
Is there another way? I am running on SVr3.1.
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