Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

To Show the Ancestry for a Process

  1. Select a process entry in the Process Manager scrolling pane.

  2. Choose Show Ancestry from the Process menu.

    Process Manager displays a window containing the process trees for the specified process. Child processes are indented from the respective parent processes.

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Tip -

The equivalent UNIX command is:

/usr/proc/bin/ptree PID

where PID is the process ID of the selected process.