How do I get the pid of a subprocess in Julia?

I want to create a subprocess that lives for a long time, potentially
longer than the Julia interpreter. I thus want to know its pid (process id)
so that I can control it later (e.g. via ps or kill).

The Process type doesn't seem to have a "pid" field, and I don't see a
respective function either. I'm happy with a solution that works on Unix
only.

My first idea for a work-around was to output $!, but Julia doesn't use a
shell to run subprocesses...

-erik

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Erik Schnetter <[email protected]>
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