[ILUG] Getting the pid of a process

From: Tiarnan O Corrain (tiarnan.o'corrain at domain cmg.com)
Date: Thu 25 Jul 2002 - 14:32:00 IST

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Hi all,

is there any sure-fire (and easy) way of getting the pid of a process
that's just been kicked off.

I want to start a daemon and write its pid to a file in /var/run (or
somewhere similar). Can I avoid grepping through the process table to
get this?

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Tiarnan O Corrain
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CMG Wireless Data Solutions Ltd.
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