[SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

[Boruch Baum]

   ref: nohup (GNU coreutils) 8.23

1] Wouldn't it be useful for nohup to indicate the PID of the process it
spawns?

1.1] What comes to mind would be to have nohup send the PID to
either STDOUT or STDERR, and also to send it as a first line to its
output file.

1.1.1] It would also be helpful for nohup to send to its output file
the text of the command line that it spawned.

1.2] This would be useful to help:

1.2.1] track the process

1.2.2] send it signals

1.2.3] identify what exactly this output file is recording

1.3] This behavior would be consistent with what bash does when ending
a comamnd with '&'; it indicates the PID and job number.

2.] Also, I would find it useful for nohup to have options to produce a
{quasi-,}unique output file:

2.1] nohup_${PID}.out

2.2] nohup_${PID}_${RANDOM}.out

For your consideration,

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