James Carlson wrote: > Antonello Cruz writes: >> You can get the ctid from svcs -l <fmri> and the processes member from >> ctstat -vi <ctid> and then process the output of ctstat. >> The downside of this approach is that I don't think either output, 'svcs >> -l' or 'ctstat -iv' are stable so you can rest assured your script will >> not break. > > 'svcs -Ho CTID <fmri>' should be expected to produce stable output, so > you ought to be able to do this to get the PIDs in a service: Right, but that's not what's in svcs(1). It says: "Screen output is Uncommitted. The invocation is Committed."
Just to make my position clear. I am all in favor of doing the output of -o col[,col]... stable. I just saying the man page says it is uncommitted. And I also believe ctstat should have a stable output for all its fields. Antonello
