Re: Control stript which is runing in background.

[jak]

... but this won't be the problem the OP may encounter if its intention 
is to create a script to command another one that is running. It will be 
sufficient to limit the write permissions to the pipe file to himself 
... perhaps protecting the pipe file inside a directory with stickibits set.
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