Re: [Help-bash] get pid of exited process

[Stas Sergeev]

04.01.2016 17:22, Greg Wooledge пишет:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:15:03PM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> > As I explained in the same mail, I need it for cleanups:
> > if the program crashes, the script should remove the
> > stalled sockets/fifos that usually embed the pid in their
> > names.
> Eh?  If the program exits, it should clean up its own sockets.  Can't you
> fix the program, instead of trying to write this workaround wrapper?
Well, fixing program is certainly good, but even if I could,
please don't forget about "kill -9", in which case the stalled
resources are unavoidable.

> If you can't, then it sounds like you want a child process that has the
> ability to interact with a terminal device (i.e. is NOT a background job
> created by a shell).  That sounds like a job for C.
That's what I mentioned in this msg:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2016-01/msg00006.html
I'd wish a better syntax for that work-around, but it works.