# From: John C. Oppenheimer # Subject: gawk-3.0.2 pid test # To: arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us # Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:31:55 -0600 (CST) # # Thanks for the very quick reply. # # This all started when I was looking for how to do the equivalent of # "nextfile." I was after documentation and found our gawk down a few # revs. # # Looks like the nextfile functionality was added somewhere around # 2.15.5. There wasn't a way to do it, until now! Thanks for the # functionality! # # Saw the /dev/xxx capability and just tried it. # # Anyway, I wrote a pid test. I hope that it is portable. Wanted to # make a user test, but looks like id(1) is not very portable. But a # little test is better than none. # # John # # pid.ok is a zero length file # # ================== pid.awk ============ BEGIN { getline pid <"/dev/pid" getline ppid <"/dev/ppid" } NR == 1 { if (pid != $0) { printf "Bad pid %d, wanted %d\n", $0, pid } } NR == 2 { if (ppid != $0) { printf "Bad ppid %d, wanted %d\n", $0, ppid } } END { # ADR --- added close("/dev/pid") close("/dev/ppid") }