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Re: How to get octave PID inside octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: How to get octave PID inside octave |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:17:58 -0400 |
On 18-Aug-2006, Joshua Rigler wrote:
| Quentin Spencer wrote:
| > I'm trying to run the same script in separate instances of octave
| > running on the same multiprocessor machine, and I would like to
| > periodically save my results to a file, and would like the script to
| > generate a different file name in each instance of octave. It seems like
| > one way to do this would be to create a file name that contains the
| > octave PID. Is there a way to gain access to the PID from within octave?
| > Any other ideas for how to accomplish this?
| >
| > Quentin
|
|
| If you're running a Bash shell, you can always use
|
| >> OCT_PID = system('echo $PPID');
|
| I'm not sure how portable that is though.
How about just using Octave's getpid () function?
jwe