Re: How to get UNIX Process ID from within a running 4GL program

From: "Tim Lim" <tim_lim@exe.com.au> > >I have a need of get the UNIX process ID of my running 4GL program. > >Anyone has a known answer? It's ugly, but: CREATE TEMP TABLE x (pidno int)RUN "echo $$ > /tmp/someuniquename" LOAD FROM /tmp/someuniquename INSERT INTO temptable and there you go. HTH. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >>I have a need of get the UNIX process ID of my running 4GL program. > CREATE TEMP TABLE x (pidno int)> RUN "echo $$ > /tmp/someuniquename" > LOAD FROM /tmp/someuniquename INSERT INTO temptable With this construction you don't get the PID of the *4gl* program, but the PID of the shell that is executing the RUN command. If you really want the PID of the 4gl program, you have to use the C-wrapper-getpid()-version mentioned also in this thread. Or, in bash or ksh (don't know if it works in a "normal" /bin/sh) use echo $PPID to get the PID of the parent (in this case the 4gl-Program) process. Walter -- Walter Haslbeck <wh@sonic.ods.de> "Don't drink and root." (detlef.neubauer@gmx.de in <m3so7kmafq.fsf@voyager.neubauer.berlin.snafu.de>)