Re^2: Keeping track of children from previous runs of a script

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I think salva's first option is the best way to go. If you are really paranoid about PID-wrap, you could put the executable name in the file along with the PID. Then, if you determine that the PID is active, you can use a variety of methods to determine the executable name and match that as well.

fnord

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Re^3: Keeping track of children from previous runs of a script by salva (Canon) on Mar 10, 2011 at 18:00 UTC
ajwood, note also that the methods described in my post are not mutually exclusive. Actually, it is quite common to combine the first two.	[reply]

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