”…don't seem to be Unix process ids…Why doesn't it report the true process ID?”
Yes i know, that's a bit of a pity. I don't know why they don't do that either.
karl@rantanplan:~/src/perl$ ps aux | grep [p]erl
karl 773100 0.0 0.0 13740 8056 ? Ss Apr13 0:00 perl /home/karl/src
+/perl/soc.pl
On the whole, I agree with you - but the features are really not bad. Unfortunately, you don't like features 😎🤪 A while ago I experimented a bit with Node and PM2 - the cluster capability impressed me a bit - I have to say. That's the reason I came across this tool.