From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 19:59:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A1237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net (dragoncrest.jasnetworks.net [65.194.254.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABDF43FA3 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Received: from works.voyager.net (bsdbox [192.168.0.3]) h5DN9R2H002598; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:09:27 GMT (envelope-from dragoncrest@voyager.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030613230810.00a52810@pop.voyager.net> X-Sender: dragoncrest@pop.voyager.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:09:05 -0400 To: Viktor Lazlo From: Dragoncrest In-Reply-To: <20030613154336.T26939@njamn8or.no-ip.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030613114007.00a18230@pop.voyager.net> <5.2.0.9.2.20030613114007.00a18230@pop.voyager.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assigning a PID to a given program? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:59:02 -0000 After doing some reading and some research, I'm seriously leaning that direction. I didn't know about PID's being written to files like that. I'll look into this a bit more. It just seemed strange to me is all. At 03:45 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Viktor Lazlo wrote: >On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: > > > Ok, not sure if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in > > case. What I'm looking to do is to assign a given Program ID number to a > > specific process if possible. I know FBD assigns them automatically as > > they're executed, but I've hit into at least one or two apps that's looking > > for a particular program running on a particular PID (don't ask me > > why. it's kinda stupid as far as I'm concerned) in order to connect to > > it. Yet the program is running with a totally different PID. Is there a > > way to assign a specific PID number to a program at launch or maybe even > > reset the PID counter to zero so that the program takes the lowest > > available PID at launch? Just curious mostly. Thanks. > >This seems highly suspicious to me--any properly written software should >be relying on the host OS to assign the PID when the applicatin is >launched. Are you sure it's not really looking for the active session's >PID in a variable or file that it's configuration is not creating or >updating? > >Cheers, > >Viktor