Re: How do you launch a background process and get pid?

You are execing a shell that launches sleep. The pid looks correct.

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Re^2: How do you launch a background process and get pid? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2016 at 03:51 UTC
Because it takes a shell to do all that redirection.	[reply]