how to know what 'fork()'ed and/or threads are running for a process

From: Steve (steve_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:30:32 +1000

Hi,

I have a process running on a dual processor machine. It basically
forks() itself and launches another process, which is basically run in
parallel on the second processor to utilize the two processors. I also
have another process that does the same thing using light-weight
processes (threads - pthread). How can I tell what 'slave' processes
belong to what 'master' process in the first case where I fork() another
process, as well as the second case where I have another thread spawned.
Is there something similar to the 'ps' command which can tell me such
info? I am running Redhat 9.0. Thanks

Steve

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