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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Finding process id of subsequent process Post 302368897 by matrixmadhan on Friday 6th of November 2009 12:34:35 AM
Old 11-06-2009
thmnetwork - many thanks for the continued reply

this is how it goes,
envVarSetter dataCrunch.exe

I can only capture the pid of envVarSetter and not the pid of dataCrunch.exe as the latter would be spawned as the child of envVarSetter and not as the child of main spawner / controller

So collecting pid here
1) is not useful for checking the status of process whether its running or not
2) or for creating a lock files because lock file would be created before the actual process is spawned.

For ex:

This is how the process is spawned in sequence.
Code:
echo $running_no > $lock_file ; envVarSetter dataCrunch.exe; rm $lock_file

Here, how can I fit the usage of pids here.
If I have not explained properly or improperly please do let me know

thanks Smilie
 

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setpgid(2)							   System Calls 							setpgid(2)

NAME
setpgid - set process group ID SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> int setpgid(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid); DESCRIPTION
The setpgid() function sets the process group ID of the process with ID pid to pgid. If pgid is equal to pid, the process becomes a process group leader. See Intro(2) for more information on session leaders and process group leaders. If pgid is not equal to pid, the process becomes a member of an existing process group. If pid is equal to 0, the process ID of the calling process is used. If pgid is equal to 0, the process specified by pid becomes a process group leader. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The setpgid() function will fail if: EACCES The pid argument matches the process ID of a child process of the calling process and the child process has successfully executed one of the exec family of functions (see exec(2)). EINVAL The pgid argument is less than (pid_t) 0 or greater than or equal to PID_MAX, or the calling process has a controlling terminal that does not support job control. EPERM The process indicated by the pid argument is a session leader. EPERM The pid argument matches the process ID of a child process of the calling process and the child process is not in the same ses- sion as the calling process. EPERM The pgid argument does not match the process ID of the process indicated by the pid argument, and there is no process with a process group ID that matches pgid in the same session as the calling process. ESRCH The pid argument does not match the process ID of the calling process or of a child process of the calling process. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Async-Signal-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Intro(2), exec(2), exit(2), fork(2), getpid(2), getsid(2), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 28 Dec 1996 setpgid(2)
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