Is it possible to change a process parent?
ex: parent A has Child B can I make the parent of B is the Init process without killing A?
Is it possible to change a process parent? ex: parent A has Child B
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Is it possible to change a process parent?
ex: parent A has Child B can I make the parent of B is the Init process without killing A?
Not from outside of process B.
From inside process B, you can call fork which makes a copy of your process, then let the original exit. When that happens the new copy B2 will not be a child of A, its parent will be set to 1 (the init process).