NAME Win32::Getppid - Implementation of getppid() for windows VERSION version 0.03 SYNOPSIS use Win32::Getppid; my $parent_pid = getppid; DESCRIPTION This module simply provides an implementation of getppid for Windows, where it is usually missing. It doesn't do anything on non-Windows platforms, so you can safely make it a non-OS specific dependency for your CPAN module. FUNCTIONS getppid Returns the parent process id for the current process. This is imported by default only in a real Windows environment ($^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(); AUTHOR Graham Ollis COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Graham Ollis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.