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Re: PSID



On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Moshe Maor wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Yaniv Orenstein wrote:
> 
> > how would it be possible to determine which ps id the next program will
> > take, for example if i'm loading pppd and i'd like to know what psid
> > will or has pppd taken?
> > 
> Simply spawn a process after you start pppd, to check it up.
> You can also include this in a connection script of some kind...
> Or even use a pppd that generates a pppd.pid file (well, you have to
> alter pppd code first... no big deal...)
> And that list can realy go on and on.... ;-)

pppd already leaves a pppd.pid in /var/run .

Regards,
Nir.

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