Get process parent

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 23:02:35

As a new feature, it would be nice to get the process parent as a psutil class.

Example:

>>> parent = psutil.parent(os.getpid())
>>> parent.pid
11038
>>> parentPID = psutil.Process(11038).parent.pid
>>> parentPID
1

Thank you.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=11

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 14:06:01

I should clarify that this issue is not a defect, as automatically classified by
Google, but I didn't know how to post an "enhancement".

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 14:23:46

I think that a more convenient API would be:

>>> parent = psutil.Process(11038).parent  # the parent pid
>>> parent
1

...so that if you want to do something useful with the parent process you just
instantiate a new Process class:

>>> psutil.Process(parent)
<psutil.Process object at 0x00A87F70>


I'm gonna add this task in the roadmap.

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement Component-Library

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 17:22:53

Implemented for Linux and OS X as r103 - Windows platform to follow after I've 
chance to research how to implement it and do some testing. For now Windows will
always return None for ppid.

Status: Started

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 17:24:31

Note: implemented as a "ppid" property currently, rather than "parent", to fit 
the traditional ps command's abbreviation.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 16, 2009 18:38:39

Now implemented on Win32 also as r105

Status: Verified
Owner: jloden

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 17, 2009 08:34:57

After some additional discussion, r109 now implements a "parent" property that
returns a Process object for the parent process.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 18, 2009 06:43:23

Labels: Milestone-0.1.1

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 18, 2009 07:10:56

Well, guys, thanks for the quick response. It's really a pleasure to give 
a group so commited as yours.
I'm now giving my firsts steps to upload my own Python projects into Google 

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 18, 2009 07:33:39

You're more than welcome, after all we created the library to be used so it's 
to see feedback. Congratulations on being our first user to request an 

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 23, 2009 09:49:02

Labels: -Component-Library

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on March 17, 2009 08:31:19

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:39:33

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r103 == revision