Win32::Getppid - Implementation of getppid() for windows
version 0.06
use Win32::Getppid; my $parent_pid = getppid;
This module simply provides an implementation of getppid for Windows, where it is usually missing. It doesn't do anything on non-Windows platforms, so you can safely make it a non-OS specific dependency for your CPAN module.
Returns the parent process id for the current process. This is imported by default only in a real Windows environment ($^O eq 'MSWin32'). On Cygwin getppid returns the cygwin parent process, for the real windows parent process id on cygwin you can use the fully qualified version:
my $windows_ppid = Win32::Getppid::getppid();
Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2015-2022 by Graham Ollis.
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