in spawned processes, both $$ and $PPID are wrong

Bash does not represent current pid and parent process-id correctly in spawned processes. The configuration information below is from a RedHat 9.0 system, but I have confirmed the problem still exists using bash version 3.1.17(1)-release on Fedora Core 6. Configuration Information [Automatically

Re: in spawned processes, both $$ and $PPID are wrong

> Bash does not represent current pid and parent process-id correctly > in spawned processes. It does; the situations you include in your message represent what Posix calls a "subshell environment", and $$ does not change in those cases. Both $$ and $PPID is set when a shell initializes. When a