> Hi Richard, > > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > Appreciate your kind words. I guess my concerns > are twofold: > > * that cron be controllable enough for safe(r) > large-scale use > > * that cron be more monitorable if in large-scale > use > > Yupp, I got that. > > > pid=$(ptree $(pgrep cron)|read parent junk;echo > $parent) > > This is fine in ksh, but not in bash as this depends > on how reading from a pipe > is implemented.
One more set of parens seems to make it work either way: pid=$(ptree $(pgrep cron)|(read parent junk;echo $parent) ) That means another process, but at least it's a fork without an exec, and one process instead of two (head and cut). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
