On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Philip Wong hochit@gmail.com voiced:
However, it sounds to me the PPID of the child processes should be the stunnel parent PID.
Yes, if the stunnel parent is still running.
With my example, if I kill PID 10764, all the stunnel processes will be gone. So I expect that's the parent, then the others should have PPID "10764". Isn't it?
Try 'ps -efH' and you can see the parent/child relationship as a nice indented tree.
I suspect you already killed the parent. All of these are children.