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From: "Jacques Lederer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: pid
> OK. Thanks very much, the eval thing does work.
> I have another one now, on another subject. On a linux box, I am trying to
> get a simple way to get automatically the pid of a process that I am
> starting. You will say this is very easy, with open or fork. However the
> problem is that I have to start a series of processes: "cd my_directory;
> cmd" What I need is the pid of "cmd", and not the pid of "cd
my_directory".
> And if I do something like
> system "cd my_directory";
> $pid = open ("cmd |"); then the "cd my directory" is useless, because
this
> is now another shell, and "cmd" doesn't work as it is not being executed
in
> my_directory. :-(
> Then the next situation is when "cmd" is actually a script in which there
is
> a command like
> "java -jar stuff.jar args this and that &", and what I want is the pid of
> this java. (when there are already other java processes running on the
box)
> I have solved the problem in a rather circumvoluted and complicated way
that
> works, however again I do feel I may have missed a simple easy way to do
it.
> What I mean is not to manually get the pid with ps -ef, but to
automatically
> get it so it can be used in a script.which I can then use to check the
satus
> of or kill the process.
>
> Jacques L
>
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