diff --git a/bubblewrap.c b/bubblewrap.c
index 8322ea03..eeae6de1 100644
--- a/bubblewrap.c
+++ b/bubblewrap.c
@@ -2630,6 +2630,7 @@ main (int    argc,
   int clone_flags;
   char *old_cwd = NULL;
   pid_t pid;
+  pid_t command_pid;
   int event_fd = -1;
   int child_wait_fd = -1;
   int setup_finished_pipe[] = {-1, -1};
@@ -2641,6 +2642,7 @@ main (int    argc,
   int res UNUSED;
   cleanup_free char *args_data UNUSED = NULL;
   int intermediate_pids_sockets[2] = {-1, -1};
+  int command_pid_sockets[2] = {-1, -1};
 
   /* Handle --version early on before we try to acquire/drop
    * any capabilities so it works in a build environment;
@@ -2872,6 +2874,14 @@ main (int    argc,
       create_pid_socketpair (intermediate_pids_sockets);
     }
 
+  /* Sometimes we spawn command as immediate child, sometimes we run pid 1, sometimes there are more intermediate pids...
+   * For simplicity, get pid just before exec'ing command to get the real pid.
+   **/
+  if (opt_json_status_fd != -1)
+    {
+      create_pid_socketpair (command_pid_sockets);
+    }
+
   pid = raw_clone (clone_flags, NULL);
   if (pid == -1)
     {
@@ -2961,6 +2971,16 @@ main (int    argc,
       /* Ignore res, if e.g. the child died and closed child_wait_fd we don't want to error out here */
       close (child_wait_fd);
 
+      close (command_pid_sockets[1]);
+      command_pid = read_pid_from_socket (command_pid_sockets[0]);
+      close (command_pid_sockets[0]);
+
+      if (opt_json_status_fd != -1)
+        {
+          cleanup_free char *output = xasprintf ("{ \"command-pid\": %i }\n", command_pid);
+          dump_info (opt_json_status_fd, output, TRUE);
+        }
+
       return monitor_child (event_fd, pid, setup_finished_pipe[0]);
     }
 
@@ -3319,6 +3339,13 @@ main (int    argc,
 
   __debug__ (("launch executable %s\n", argv[0]));
 
+  if (opt_json_status_fd != -1)
+    {
+      close (command_pid_sockets[0]);
+      send_pid_on_socket (command_pid_sockets[1]);
+      close (command_pid_sockets[1]);
+    }
+
   if (proc_fd != -1)
     close (proc_fd);
 
diff --git a/bwrap.xml b/bwrap.xml
index 9d770ac0..fe590693 100644
--- a/bwrap.xml
+++ b/bwrap.xml
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@
         Multiple JSON documents are written to <arg choice="plain">FD</arg>,
         one per line (<ulink url="https://jsonlines.org/">"JSON lines" format</ulink>).
         Each line is a single JSON object.
+        </para><para>
         After <command>bwrap</command> has started the child process inside the sandbox,
         it writes an object with a <literal>child-pid</literal> member to the
         <option>--json-status-fd</option> (this duplicates the older <option>--info-fd</option>).
@@ -446,10 +447,17 @@
         which <command>bwrap</command> was run.
         If available, the namespace IDs are also included in the object with the <literal>child-pid</literal>;
         again, this duplicates the older <option>--info-fd</option>.
+        </para><para>
+        Just before COMMAND is exec'ed, the process writes its process ID with a <literal>command-pid</literal>
+        member. This process ID is the PID of COMMAND, and it might not match <literal>child-pid</literal>
+        mentioned above if <command>bwrap</command> runs additional pid 1 process(e.g. when using
+        <option>--unshare-pid</option>).
+        </para><para>
         When the child process inside the sandbox exits, <command>bwrap</command> writes an object
         with an exit-code member, and then closes the <option>--json-status-fd</option>. The value
         corresponding to <literal>exit-code</literal> is the exit status of the child, in the usual
         shell encoding (n if it exited normally with status n, or 128+n if it was killed by signal n).
+        </para><para>
         Other members may be added to those objects in future versions of <command>bwrap</command>,
         and other JSON objects may be added before or after the current objects, so readers must
         ignore members and objects that they do not understand.