At 1245863677 time_t, Alex Cornejo wrote:
The problem is that if we do os.execute(pgrep -f pyscript) from lua,
it will always return a process, even if pyscript is not running.
Actually, you can do os.execute(pgrep -f blablafoofoobar) and it
will always find a process. Weird huh? Any ideas on
Yup, I actually pinned down the problem now, I think its a bug in pgrep.
You instance pgrep -f someprogname and pgrep first queries the system
for a list of processes with their respective command lines, then
iterates over each process and searches for the substring
someprogname inside each
At 1245953624 time_t, Alex Cornejo wrote:
Any ideas? Namely I wanted to implement a startup module for awesome
which has a list of programs you would like to run when awesome start,
but only runs them if they are not already running (to avoid problems
when restarting awesome for example). This
Don't use pgrep (ps and grep may have better results)? Write
the programs you started to a file and delete them after
awesome completes (like, after in the .xinitrc)?
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Hi ppl,
Suppose you want to code something in lua that needs to check if xterm
is running, a quick way to do that in bash would be pgrep xterm.
However, sometimes you want to check for a program that use an
interpreter. For example suppose you have a python script call
pyscript, if you run pgrep
