From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 23 07:00:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28970 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28951 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA07806 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:00:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by mail.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA21699 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:00:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26367 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:00:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199809231400.QAA00941@internal> Subject: Re: How to get the PID before a program is run? (No joke :-) In-Reply-To: <199809231352.PAA05460@david.siemens.de> from Jon Hamilton at "Sep 23, 98 08:55:55 am" To: hamilton@pobox.com (Jon Hamilton) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > In message <199809230729.JAA12131@internal>, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > } Hi, > } > } I have a rather curious problem here: > } > } I want to start a program but I need its PID before > } it is run. One way would be to load the program and > } send a -STOP signal very quickly. Then I have got the > } PID, can do some things and send a -CONT signal when > } finished. > > It's actually fairly simple, though somewhat off the beaten path. Something > like: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "PID is $$" > exec /your/program/here OK, this replaces my shell script. But I have to do some stuff later when /your/program/here is finished. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message