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Re: ionice bash pid in bash_profile Fails
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: ionice bash pid in bash_profile Fails |
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Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:39:49 -0500 |
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:08:33PM -0900, Roger wrote:
> When logging in, the following fails if put in $HOME/.bash_profile:
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> ionice -c 2 -n 0 -p `pidof bash`
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> ... I'm guessing, because bash hasn't started yet?
I very much doubt you want to use `pidof bash` here. That would pick
up EVERY bash process running on the system, including other people's,
and possibly a few wrapper scripts running as root.
If you want the PID of the current shell process, use $$ instead.