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Re: adding a new CVS_PID environment variable


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: adding a new CVS_PID environment variable
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:25:31 -0500
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Mark D. Baushke wrote:

Hi Folks,

The FreeBSD folks have had a CVS_PID environment variable in their
version of cvs since 1997-05-15 and they got it from the OpenBSD folks
before that. It is a simple addition. Here is my port of this feature.

Can you provide some examples why is would be useful to have the PID of the parent process?

The c "getppid" function is defined by POSIX, BSD 4.3, and SVID to return the PID of the parent process. Isn't there some shell equivalent? At the least, something like `ps -eaf |grep $$' should be usable. What's the point of including this in the CVS code?

Derek

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