Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:29:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to get the PID before a program is run? (No joke :-) Message-ID: <199809230729.JAA12131@internal>
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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. This is rather ugly. On my old Atari ST there was a function Pexec() which could be called with a special parameter which did all things in order to run a program but actually didn't pass control to it. I am sure there must be an esay way to do this on FreeBSD but I didn't find any. My preferred way of using it would be in a shell script but every hint is welcome. Thanks -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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