Re: [stunnel-users] PPID of child process

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Philip Wong hochit@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your reply.

Can we set child processes with correct PPID?

PPID is the parent process ID number, i.e. the PID of the process that ran you. When I am in bash and run 'ls', the PPID of ls is my bash shell.

This has nothing to do with the userid of any of these processes.

When your PPID is 1 that means that your parent has exited, and you have been inherited by the init process (process ID 1).

Sounds like you killed the parent stunnel process exited but the children continued on because they weren't done handling their requests. This is not abnormal.