[SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

2018-02-18 Thread Boruch Baum
ref: nohup (GNU coreutils) 8.23 1] Wouldn't it be useful for nohup to indicate the PID of the process it spawns? 1.1] What comes to mind would be to have nohup send the PID to either STDOUT or STDERR, and also to send it as a first line to its output file. 1.1.1] It would also be helpful for

Re: [SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

2018-02-18 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 02/18/2018 12:26 PM, Boruch Baum wrote: 1] Wouldn't it be useful for nohup to indicate the PID of the process it spawns? nohup(1) does *not* create a new process. Instead, it invokes execve to replace its own image with that of the new one (in the same process), i.e., there is no new PID.

Re: [SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

2018-02-18 Thread Boruch Baum
On 2018-02-19 00:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > Have a nice day, > Berny Thank you for the kind wishes. I hope the list will continue to consider the entirety of the suggestions in my post. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0