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Re: Finding PID of a curl process

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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 07:39:25 -0600

i used sysvinit and procps source so

pidof is either a link from /sbin/pidof to sysvinit's /sbin/killall5 or from procps /bin/pidof

On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:56:25 -0400
Joe Browning <joebrowning99_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Is pidof command installed with uclibc?
> Joe
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 17:31 Jon Harris <jharris_at_symetrix.co> wrote:
>
> > Some programs will store their processed IDs in pid files. I am looking
> > for this functionality for curl but don't see any way to find this. So I
> > would like to request this as a command line option.
> > I'm also looking for any work-arounds for this. I have a situation where
> > I launch one or more curl operation in the background from a
> > single-threaded C application. At some time later, I want to access it by
> > PID to possibly kill it or find other info about it.
> > Other relevant factors:
> > 1) I am on a memory-limited system running uClinux. I don't have a
> > 'pgrep' and would prefer not to search through the contents of /proc.
> > 2) There may be dozens of curls open at any one time.
> >
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