[PD] pid

ClaudiusMaximus gloriousclaudiusmaximus at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 19 05:41:52 CEST 2005


nico bats wrote:
> is there's a simple way to find the pid of pd after i've launched it.
> with the unix ps command, i can find the pid, but can it be done
> automagically.

You can store the process id in a variable if you start a program
asynchronously from a script.  For example here is part of my ~/.xinitrc

----
# start window manager
/usr/bin/fluxbox & $wmpid=$!

# launch programs here asynchronously

# wait for window manager to exit
wait $wmpid
----

You could use pdsend to send the pid to pd after a short delay (enough
time for Pd to start and load the patches that will receive the pid).




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