10-08-2001
Gee, thanks for the kind words guys!
No, you cannot just assume the next pid will be the current pid +1. You're on a multi-user machine. Stuff like cron runs all the time. If someone else forks first, they get the next pid. Also in a multi-cpu system, each cpu will usually reserve a chunk of 10 or so pids at once to cut down on spinlocks. Finally, pids recycle after pid 32,000.
The worst consequence of the sleep program in the background is that it is consuming a proc table entry. Too many of these and eventually you bump into maxuprc and cannot fork anymore. As long as that was not an issue, I'd just let it run. Remember that it will take code to remember or find the pid and then kill the pid. The load that this code would put on the system is trivial, but the only payback is the early death of a sleep statement...it can't make a profit.
If you really got to nail that last sleep process, a "kill $(ps -f | grep [s]leep |awk '{print $2}')" should get it.
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cvm-sql(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual cvm-sql(7)
NAME
cvm-sql - CVM SQL Framework
QUERY SUBSTITUTION
$VAR and ${VAR} are replaced with the quoted value of the environment variable named VAR. Use the second form when VAR contains anything
other than alpha-numeric or underscore (_) characters. Do not include quotes in the query. The variables account and domain contain the
account and domain names given by the CVM client. $$ is replaced with a single dollar sign.
QUERY RESULTS
The query must produce the following fields exactly in order. All required fields must not be null or empty.
1. Password, encrypted with crypt(3) (required)
2. Actual account name (required)
3. User ID (integer) (required)
4. Group ID (integer) (required)
5. Directory (required)
6. Real name (optional)
7. Login shell (optional)
8. Group name (optional)
9. Domain name (optional)
10. System account name (optional)
11. System account directory (optional)
12. Mailbox path (optional)
DEFAULT QUERY
SELECT password, username, userid, groupid, directory, realname, shell, groupname, domain, sys_username, sys_directory FROM accounts WHERE
username=$account AND domain=$domain
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