Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:43:06 -0400 From: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Assigning a PID to a given program? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030613114007.00a18230@pop.voyager.net>
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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.
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