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

[Chet Ramey]

> 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
subshell is created as a copy of the parent, $$ and $PPID are part of
the copied environment. 

Chet

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