On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:49:59PM -0400, Dave Goel wrote:
>
> OTOH, I guess if one has to write cleaner/other meta scripts without
> proper traps, the cleaner can simply check if linux's PID counter
> is too close to the current PID, and if so, refrain from drastic
> actions. For the latter, I wonder if there's a way to
> get "current PID counter."
How about:
current_pid = fork();
if (current_pid == 0)
exit(0);
(void) waitpid(current_pid);
Translating this to perl or python shouldn't be that difficult.
- Ted
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