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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Obtaining A Process ID (PID) Post 9408 by 1cuervo on Friday 26th of October 2001 08:38:07 AM
Old 10-26-2001
Obtaining A Process ID (PID)

Is there any way I can get UNIX to return the Process ID of a process when I actually issue the command to invoke the process?

For example, if I was to launch an emacs process in batch mode, by issuing the UNIX command :

% emacs file.txt&

then UNIX would return the Process ID (PID). "2343", for example.
Is this possible?

The reason I ask this question is because I am invoking programs from a remote machine and need to periodically probe for which processes are running to see whether the processes are still running or if they have terminated.

I suppose I could just issue a 'ps' command, pipe the output to a file and then grep the file for the commands issued, but the processes I am looking for depend on the directory they were invoked from and I don't think the 'ps' utility records the directory which a program/process was executed from - or does it?

Many thanks!
 

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system(3S)																system(3S)

NAME
system() - issue a shell command SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
executes the command specified by the string pointed to by command. The environment of the executed command is as if a child process were created using (see fork(2)), and the child process invoked the sh-posix(1) utility via a call to (see exec(2)) as follows: ignores the and signals, and blocks the signal, while waiting for the command to terminate. If this might cause the application to miss a signal that would have killed it, the application should examine the return value from and take whatever action is appropriate to the application if the command terminated due to receipt of a signal. does not affect the termination status of any child of the calling processes other than the process or processes it itself creates. does not return until the child process has terminated. APPLICATION USAGE
If the return value of is not -1, its value can be decoded through the use of the macros described in For convenience, these macros are also provided in Note that, while must ignore and and block while waiting for the child to terminate, the handling of signals in the executed command is as specified by fork(2) and exec(2). For example, if is being caught or is set to when is called, the child is started with handling set to Ignoring and in the parent process prevents coordination problems (such as two processes reading from the same terminal) when the executed command ignores or catches one of the signals. RETURN VALUE
If command is null, returns non-zero. If command is not null, returns the termination status of the command language interpreter in the format specified by wait(2). The termi- nation status of the command language interpreter is as specified for sh-posix(1), except that if some error prevents the command language interpreter from executing after the child process is created, the return value from is as if the command language interpreter had termi- nated using If a child process cannot be created, or if the termination status for the command language interpreter cannot be obtained, returns -1 and sets to indicate the error. DIAGNOSTICS
forks to create a child process which, in turn, in order to execute string. If the fork fails, returns -1 and sets If the exec fails, returns the status value returned by (see wait(2)) for a process that terminates with a call of ERRORS
If errors are encountered, sets values as described by fork(2). FILES
SEE ALSO
sh(1), fork(2), exec(2), wait(2), thread_safety(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
system(3S)
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