/* Determine the parent process of a given process. Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2019. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include /* Specification. */ #include "get_ppid_of.h" #include #include #if defined __linux__ || defined __ANDROID__ || (defined __FreeBSD_kernel__ && !defined __FreeBSD__) || defined __GNU__ || defined __FreeBSD__ || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __NetBSD__ || defined __minix || defined __sun /* Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Minix, Solaris */ # include # include #endif #if defined __OpenBSD__ /* OpenBSD */ # include /* sysctl, struct kinfo_proc */ #endif #if defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__ /* Mac OS X */ /* Get MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED, MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED. The version at runtime satisfies MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED <= version <= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED. */ # include # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= 1050 # include # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1050 /* Mac OS X versions < 10.5 don't have this function. Therefore declare it as weak, in order to avoid a runtime error when the binaries are run on these older versions. */ extern int proc_pidinfo (int, int, uint64_t, void *, int) WEAK_IMPORT_ATTRIBUTE; # endif # endif #endif #if defined _AIX /* AIX */ # include #endif #if defined __hpux /* HP-UX */ # include # include # include #endif #if defined __sgi /* IRIX */ # include # include # include #endif #if defined __CYGWIN__ /* Cygwin */ # define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN # include /* needed to get 'struct external_pinfo' defined */ # include #endif #if defined __BEOS__ || defined __HAIKU__ /* BeOS, Haiku */ # include #endif pid_t get_ppid_of (pid_t pid) { #if defined __linux__ || defined __ANDROID__ || (defined __FreeBSD_kernel__ && !defined __FreeBSD__) || defined __GNU__ /* Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Hurd */ /* GNU/kFreeBSD mounts /proc as linprocfs, which looks like a Linux /proc file system. */ /* Read the contents of /proc//status into memory. */ char filename[6 + 10 + 7 + 1]; int fd; sprintf (filename, "/proc/%u/status", (unsigned int) pid); fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd >= 0) { char buf[4096 + 1]; ssize_t nread = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); close (fd); if (nread >= 0) { char *bufend = buf + nread; char *p; /* NUL-terminate the buffer. */ *bufend = '\0'; /* Search for a line that starts with "PPid:". */ for (p = buf;;) { if (bufend - p >= 5 && memcmp (p, "PPid:", 5) == 0) { unsigned int ppid = 0; if (sscanf (p + 5, "%u", &ppid) > 0) return ppid; } p = strchr (p, '\n'); if (p != NULL) p++; else break; } } } #endif #if defined __FreeBSD__ || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __NetBSD__ /* FreeBSD, NetBSD */ /* Read the contents of /proc//status into memory. */ char filename[6 + 10 + 7 + 1]; int fd; sprintf (filename, "/proc/%u/status", (unsigned int) pid); fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd >= 0) { char buf[4096 + 1]; ssize_t nread = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); close (fd); if (nread >= 0) { char *p; /* NUL-terminate the buffer. */ buf[nread] = '\0'; /* Search for the third space-separated field. */ p = strchr (buf, ' '); if (p != NULL) { p = strchr (p + 1, ' '); if (p != NULL) { unsigned int ppid = 0; if (sscanf (p + 1, "%u", &ppid) > 0) return ppid; } } } } #endif #if defined __minix /* Minix */ /* Read the contents of /proc//psinfo into memory. */ char filename[6 + 10 + 7 + 1]; int fd; sprintf (filename, "/proc/%u/psinfo", (unsigned int) pid); fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd >= 0) { char buf[4096 + 1]; ssize_t nread = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); close (fd); if (nread >= 0) { char *p; int count; /* NUL-terminate the buffer. */ buf[nread] = '\0'; /* Search for the 16th space-separated field. */ p = strchr (buf, ' '); for (count = 1; p != NULL && count < 15; count++) p = strchr (p + 1, ' '); if (p != NULL) { unsigned int ppid = 0; if (sscanf (p + 1, "%u", &ppid) > 0) return ppid; } } } #endif #if defined __sun /* Solaris */ /* Read the contents of /proc//psinfo into memory. Alternatively, we could read the contents of /proc//status into memory. But it contains a lot of information that we don't need. */ char filename[6 + 10 + 7 + 1]; int fd; sprintf (filename, "/proc/%u/psinfo", (unsigned int) pid); fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd >= 0) { /* The contents is a 'struct psinfo'. But since 'struct psinfo' has a different size in a 32-bit and a 64-bit environment, we avoid it. Nevertheless, the size of this contents depends on whether the process that reads it is 32-bit or 64-bit! */ #if defined __LP64__ # define PSINFO_SIZE 416 #else # define PSINFO_SIZE 336 #endif union { char all[PSINFO_SIZE]; unsigned int header[11]; } buf; ssize_t nread = read (fd, buf.all, sizeof (buf.all)); close (fd); if (nread >= (ssize_t) sizeof (buf.header)) return buf.header[3]; } #endif #if defined __OpenBSD__ /* OpenBSD */ /* Documentation: https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2 */ int info_path[] = { CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_PID, pid, sizeof (struct kinfo_proc), 1 }; struct kinfo_proc info; size_t len; len = sizeof (info); if (sysctl (info_path, 6, &info, &len, NULL, 0) >= 0 && len == sizeof (info)) return info.p_ppid; #endif #if defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__ /* Mac OS X */ # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= 1050 /* Mac OS X >= 10.7 has PROC_PIDT_SHORTBSDINFO. */ # if defined PROC_PIDT_SHORTBSDINFO # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1050 if (proc_pidinfo != NULL) /* at runtime Mac OS X >= 10.5 ? */ # endif { struct proc_bsdshortinfo info; if (proc_pidinfo (pid, PROC_PIDT_SHORTBSDINFO, 0, &info, sizeof (info)) == sizeof (info)) return info.pbsi_ppid; } # endif # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1070 /* For older versions, use PROC_PIDTBSDINFO instead. */ /* Note: The second part of 'struct proc_bsdinfo' differs in size between 32-bit and 64-bit environments, and the kernel of Mac OS X 10.5 knows only about the 32-bit 'struct proc_bsdinfo'. Fortunately all the info we need is in the first part, which is the same in 32-bit and 64-bit. */ # if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED < 1050 if (proc_pidinfo != NULL) /* at runtime Mac OS X >= 10.5 ? */ # endif { struct proc_bsdinfo info; if (proc_pidinfo (pid, PROC_PIDTBSDINFO, 0, &info, 128) == 128) return info.pbi_ppid; } # endif # endif #endif #if defined _AIX /* AIX */ /* Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_61/com.ibm.aix.basetrf1/getprocs.htm */ struct procentry64 procs; if (getprocs64 (&procs, sizeof procs, NULL, 0, &pid, 1) > 0) return procs.pi_ppid; #endif #if defined __hpux /* HP-UX */ struct pst_status status; if (pstat_getproc (&status, sizeof status, 0, pid) > 0) return status.pst_ppid; else { # if !defined __LP64__ /* Support for 32-bit programs running in 64-bit HP-UX. The documented way to do this is to use the same source code as above, but in a compilation unit where '#define _PSTAT64 1' is in effect. I prefer a single compilation unit; the struct size and the offsets are not going to change. */ char status64[1216]; if (__pstat_getproc64 (status64, sizeof status64, 0, pid) > 0) return *(unsigned long long *)(status64 + 24); # endif } #endif #if defined __sgi /* IRIX */ char filename[12 + 10 + 1]; int fd; sprintf (filename, "/proc/pinfo/%u", pid); fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (0 <= fd) { prpsinfo_t buf; int ioctl_ok = 0 <= ioctl (fd, PIOCPSINFO, &buf); close (fd); if (ioctl_ok) return buf.pr_ppid; } #endif #if defined __CYGWIN__ /* Cygwin */ struct external_pinfo *info = (struct external_pinfo *) cygwin_internal (CW_GETPINFO, pid); if (info != NULL) return info->ppid; #endif #if defined __BEOS__ || defined __HAIKU__ /* BeOS, Haiku */ if (pid == getpid ()) return getppid (); #endif return 0; } #ifdef TEST #include #include /* Usage: ./a.out or: ./a.out PID */ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char *arg = argv[1]; pid_t pid = (arg != NULL ? atoi (arg) : getpid ()); pid_t parent = get_ppid_of (pid); printf ("PID=%lu PPID=%lu\n", (unsigned long) pid, (unsigned long) parent); return 0; } /* * Local Variables: * compile-command: "gcc -ggdb -DTEST -Wall -I.. get_ppid_of.c" * End: */ #endif