Question about processes
August 06, 2000 10:19 AM
(Not game dev related, but oh well...) Is there a way I can refer to a process by its name (not by its PID) when using commands like kill and fg? You can shut down vi (for example) like this (the list produced by ps is a bit simplified and probably not correct):
$ vi &
$ ps
PID PROCESS
100 bash
101 vi
102 ps
$ kill 101
Is there a way so I can do something like this?:
$ vi &
$ kill vi
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?" - Larry Wall
1,237
August 06, 2000 10:35 AM
Not to the best of my knowledge, you may however be able to do it using
ps | grep vi
and get the PID somehow and then
kill the_PID
I haven''t used this stuff for ages so it is all theoretical. Maybe someone else has knowledge on this
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ps | grep vi
and get the PID somehow and then
kill the_PID
I haven''t used this stuff for ages so it is all theoretical. Maybe someone else has knowledge on this
-Chris Bennett ("Insanity" of Dwarfsoft)
Check our site:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~dwarfsoft/
Check out our NPC AI Mailing List :
http://www.egroups.com/group/NPCAI/
made due to popular demand here at GDNet :)
100
August 06, 2000 10:58 AM
Why would you want to do something like that? It is possible to run multipe instances of vi. In your example, how would you know what process to kill? All of them? Does not make logical sense to kill a process by it''s name.
Alek
Alek
August 06, 2000 01:06 PM
It's not like I'm going to use it, I just want to know if it's possible 
While I'm waiting for my Red Hat 6.2 CD to come , I'm just trying to learn some of the basics in Floppix.
dwarfsoft, that might work, but I'm still referring to the vi process by its pid, not by its name
Edited by - Muzzafarath on August 6, 2000 2:16:05 PM
While I'm waiting for my Red Hat 6.2 CD to come , I'm just trying to learn some of the basics in Floppix.dwarfsoft, that might work, but I'm still referring to the vi process by its pid, not by its name
Edited by - Muzzafarath on August 6, 2000 2:16:05 PM
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?" - Larry Wall
269
August 07, 2000 08:19 AM
After careful deliberation, I have come to the conclusion that Nazrix is not cool. I am sorry for any inconvienience my previous mistake may have caused. We now return you to the original programming
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