Re: [SUGGESTION] nohup_${PID}.out

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 02/18/2018 12:26 PM, Boruch Baum wrote:
> 1] Wouldn't it be useful for nohup to indicate the PID of the process it
> spawns?

nohup(1) does *not* create a new process.  Instead, it invokes execve to replace
its own image with that of the new one (in the same process), i.e., there is no
new PID.  You can check via strace(1) to see what happens.

P.S. Often one sends such a process to the background - as you said with '&':

  $ nohup sleep 1000 &

This is a shell feature, and you can use $! to get the PID for further
tracking etc., e.g.:

  $ kill $!

Have a nice day,
Berny