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Does each external command happen in its own terminal? [message #1283841]

Thu, 03 April 2014 21:58

David Hickernell

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Registered: October 2012

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I've got a test suite that is supposed to launch a process using ub_app_executeExternalCommand at the beginning, and kill that process (also using ub_app_executeExternalCommand) at the end. However, the script that's trying to kill the process doesn't seem to be seeing it with a "ps -f | grep ...", because the process is still running after the test is over.

So, I'm wondering if that means that the two commands are being executed in different TTYs despite being part of the same test suite. I'm trying to avoid having to use "ps -ef", lest I end up killing many more processes than I intended to.

Thanks!

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Re: Does each external command happen in its own terminal? [message #1284285 is a reply to message #1283841]

Fri, 04 April 2014 09:50

Achim Loerke

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Braunschweig, Germany

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The processes should be in the same process group. However, they are not processed by a shell but started directly and they don't have a controlling tty. This means that the pipe you are using can't work. You may use a shell script instead or try working out the correct escape sequences for a "/bin/sh -c ..." construct.

- Achim

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