Taming non-terminating Bash processes

Re:Taming non-terminating Bash processes by pstadler on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:06PM (#8578293)

$BASHPID is not working with subshells prior to Bash v4.

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Re:Taming non-terminating Bash processes by fensipens on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:32PM (#8578340)

$BASHPID and $! are two different things.

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Re:Taming non-terminating Bash processes by pstadler on Saturday November 08, 2014 @06:06PM (#8578437)

I need to know the PID of the subshell, inside the subshell. $BASHPID was introduced to hold this value. While $$ still contains the PID of the parent process and $! is not available inside the subshell after all.

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