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process ID, collisions
Wondering if anyone's come up with a robust and collision-free way to
create temporary files in Ferret. In particular, it'd be great to have a
way to obtain the process identification (PID) of the Ferret session. For
example, in shell scripting it's customary to create temporary files like
/tmp/$com:tmp.$$
This way the temporary file is definitely (1) in a writeable directory,
(2) traceable to its calling script, (3) identified as a temporary file,
and (4) uniquely identified by its PID to avoid collisions with other
users running the same script.
I tried something like
spawn echo $$
but this appears to echo the PID of the spawned subshell, not the parent
Ferret process. Anybody know how to get hold of the Ferret PID? I
suppose one could do it with a wrapper around the executable -- any other
ideas?
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
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Andrew Wittenberg Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
andyw@splash.princeton.edu Princeton University
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