11-01-2001
Pid's in unix go up to 32,000 then they recycle. In a multi-processor environment it is common for each cpu to grab 5 or 10 pid's at a time to reduce spinlocking so you can't expect them to be allocated in order.
I hope that you are not running this as root! Assuming that you are running as an ordinary user there is no problem. If another user allocates the same pid, your process will not succeed in invoking a kill system call against it. You can only kill your own processes unless you're root.
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io::async::pid
IO::Async::PID(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation IO::Async::PID(3pm)
NAME
"IO::Async::PID" - event callback on exit of a child process
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Async::PID;
use POSIX qw( WEXITSTATUS );
use IO::Async::Loop;
my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new;
my $kid = $loop->fork(
code => sub {
print "Child sleeping..
";
sleep 10;
print "Child exiting
";
return 20;
},
);
print "Child process $kid started
";
my $pid = IO::Async::PID->new(
pid => $kid,
on_exit => sub {
my ( $self, $exitcode ) = @_;
printf "Child process %d exited with status %d
",
$self->pid, WEXITSTATUS($exitcode);
},
);
$loop->add( $pid );
$loop->run;
DESCRIPTION
This subclass of IO::Async::Notifier invokes its callback when a process exits.
For most use cases, a IO::Async::Process object provides more control of setting up the process, connecting filehandles to it, sending data
to and receiving data from it.
EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters:
on_exit $exitcode
Invoked when the watched process exits.
PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure":
pid => INT
The process ID to watch. Must be given before the object has been added to the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object.
on_exit => CODE
CODE reference for the "on_exit" event.
Once the "on_exit" continuation has been invoked, the "IO::Async::PID" object is removed from the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object.
METHODS
$process_id = $pid->pid
Returns the underlying process ID
$pid->kill( $signal )
Sends a signal to the process
AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::PID(3pm)