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No problems - I am connecting to and running all commands as a standard UNIX user.

I have one final query concerning PIDs and use of the ksh ! variable :

90% of the time, when I parse the...

Thanks for your tips! I have one more query concerning PIDs:

On a typical UNIX machine (whatever that is!), how often is a specific PID likely to be allocated to a process? Of course, this will...

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I have an application which basically runs lots of UNIX programs remotely, using the Telnet protocol. For each program it remotely executes, it stores the process ID (PID) for that...

Thankyou very much for your help! My only outstanding query involves the allocation of a PID to UNIX processes:

Is it simply a case of UNIX maintaining a pool of 'free' PIDs, and then allocating a...

Sorry for the double post.

How does the "pid=$!" command reveal the value of the ! variable for the process invoked in the "emacs file.txt&" command?

Is the "pid=$!" command issued separately...

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...