Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?variable=3DStrart=5FProgramPID =3F=3F?=

From: pir aa (pir_at_austromail.at)
Date: 11/25/04

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    Thanks,

    You are right it is $! but my question that this throws up, is, if when
    running x scripts the $! could return at some time the pid of a wrong command.
    What I mean:
    Imagine having two scripts (I know ls and df don't run long enough, it is just
    used as an example):
    1.)
    ls
    pid1s=$!
    kill $pid1s

    2.)
    df
    piddf=$!
    kill $piddf

    Now could it ever happen, if there would run really many of these scripts,
    that you could end up with something like this:
    df
    pidls=$!

    ??

    (Now I am using "pkill -f" for my scipt)

    Pir

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