Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:55:55 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get the PID before a program is run? (No joke :-) Message-ID: <199809231352.GAA27567@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:29:47 %2B0200." <199809230729.JAA12131@internal>
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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 and you're in business. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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