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Re: what does 'probe process(PID_OR_NAME).clone' mean?

Hi -

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:32:09PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:

> [...]  It sounded a little more like you meant .begin just to be
> newborn-child and .end just to be death, but as I said it's hazy to
> me.

Yes, that makes sense for the script level.

> The latter sense doesn't really make sense for a process(PID).begin
> probe, since by definition the PID process already exists before the
> session starts.  [...]

Right.  (I wonder if there is some conceivable utility to a notation
that allows probing future processes by forecast PID numbers.)

- FChE
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