Background process

[badrinathn]

Hi,
What I want to know is when a job (some sql) is running in the background, won't I appear in the v$process data dict.

I have a process (process no 16150 on UX-os), I am trying to find out the sid for that background session by matching
16150 in the v$process view where spid = 16150.
I don't find any rows in the view.

Can some one explain how I can find the sid for a process which is running in background?
Badrinath

[gpsingh]

When u run a sql from within a shell, a new process is created , so u need to find out the process id of this new process

[badrinathn]

Yeh, But I have checked up for the new process id also.
All other process id's are displayed in v$process except for this one!!1
badrinath