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- getppid

  Returns the process id of the parent process.

  Note for Linux users: on Linux, the C functions `getpid()` and `getppid()` return different values from different threads. In order to be portable, this behavior is not reflected by the perl-level function `getppid()`, that returns a consistent value across threads. If you want to call the underlying `getppid()`, you may use the CPAN module `Linux::Pid` .

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