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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: File locking within zsh?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060511160123.29080117.pws@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lt8xp8sko1.fsf@newsol.starnix.com>

"Tim Writer" <tim@starnix.com> wrote:
> Okay. But I don't understand this:
> 
>     tim@ganesh% echo $ZSH_VERSION
>     4.2.5
>     tim@ganesh% echo $$; ( echo $$ )
>     18095
>     18095
>     tim@ganesh%

That's standard shell behaviour:  $$ is supposed to be unique to the parent
shell, not to every subshell instance.  You need tricks to get the actual
pid.  This will work on Linux:

zmodload -i zsh/stat
stat +link /proc/self

getpid() is another thing which could be added to the zsh/system module.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-11 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09 22:04 Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10  3:31 ` Tim Writer
2006-05-10  5:59   ` Brian K. White
2006-05-10 10:02     ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10 22:04       ` Tim Writer
2006-05-11  3:41         ` Bart Schaefer
2006-05-11 14:25           ` Tim Writer
2006-05-11 15:01             ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2006-05-12  4:22               ` Tim Writer
2006-05-12  9:17               ` Subshells and parameters (was: File locking within zsh?) Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-12 12:09                 ` Subshells and parameters Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-12 23:09                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-13  2:05                     ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-17 14:24                       ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-17 15:42                         ` Bart Schaefer
2006-05-17 16:07                           ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-13  2:10                     ` Dan Nelson
2006-05-11 16:13             ` File locking within zsh? Brian K. White
2006-05-10 17:13     ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-11 15:45       ` Brian K. White
2006-05-12  7:54         ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-12 19:40           ` Tim Writer
2006-05-12 23:24             ` Vincent Lefevre
2006-05-10 21:53     ` Tim Writer
2006-05-10  6:29 ` DervishD
2006-05-10 10:02   ` Lloyd Zusman
2006-05-10 21:21     ` DervishD

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