Getting pid of a remote process

[Diez B. Roggisch]

srinivasan srinivas schrieb:
> Hi,
> Could you please suggest me a way to find pid of a process started on a remote machine by the current process?? I should get pid in the current process environment. The approach should be somewhat generic. It shouldn't expect the remote process to print its pid.

Without information about

  - the OS you use

  - the technique you use for spawning processes remote

there is no answer to this.

Diez