Re: ionice bash pid in bash_profile Fails

[Roger]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:41:48AM -0900, Roger wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 08:39:49AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> >>   ionice -c 2 -n 0 -p `pidof bash`
>> >If you want the PID of the current shell process, use $$ instead.
>> 
>> Here's the error I get when logging into a virtual terminal and
>> $HOME/.bash_profile executes or is read in:
>> 
>> ionice: ioprio_set failed: No such process
>
>Perhaps pidof fails to find the -bash process due to the leading dash?
>Who knows?  Who cares?  Use $$ to get the PID of the shell.

The following works like a charm:

# See ionice manfile - give high priority to Bash
ionice -c 2 -n 0 -p `echo $$`

Thanks!

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Roger
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