Hi, in fedora core 2 i've got this problem with my java application With Runtime exec method i start an external process (a ksh shell script called test.ksh). I see that test.ksh parent pid is different from java process pid but is a pid of a process already died. Why?What is this intermediate process? In other linux (for example gentoo) and HP-UX test.ksh parent is java process. Can i obtain this behaviour in fedora? thanks a lot