Tag: Programming

It turns out there’s a bug, due primarily to testing on zsh and putting the script into bash.

function find_lowest_subprocess() {
local -i parent=$1
local pids
typeset -a pids
pids=($(pgrep -P $parent))
while ((${#pids[@]} > 0)); do
if ((${#pids[@]} > 1)); then
parent=${pids[0]}
local i=0
while ((i < ${#pids[@]})); do
local sub=$(pgrep -P ${pids[$i]})
[[ -n $sub ]] && parent=$sub
((i=i + 1))
done
else
parent=$pids
fi
pids=($(pgrep -P $parent))
done
echo $parent
}

Someone, somewhere forgot about the parenthes around the array assignments. Shame on me!

The GPL is a difficult beast.
all those MODULE_EXPORT_GPL symbols.
F**k them.
I’m just going to release a patch that remaps them all to MODULE_EXPORT.
The patch is GPL.
F**k you I’m a pragmatist, not an idealist.
This was written at 3am, I am drunk and I’m bitter. You know who I am.
I don’t prefix my posts with ‘yes, I drink…’, you should know what I’m like, after all; you’re here

We need to extend the linkit script to support (a) Solaris and (b) spaces/escape characters in the file name.

Sorry, my shell environment just isn’t cooperating with me – BASH_ARGV[0] == {}, yet I cannot dereference the variable correctly no matter what I try. No wonder people use perl. God this is so frelling irritating.

This little piece of shell script attempts to find the ‘lowest subprocess’ of a passed in process. It works well with a straight tree of processes, and if there are the occasional pipes in the command tree then it will miss them most of the time.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll talk about how to fix it.

function find_lowest_subprocess() {
local -i parent=$1
local pids
typeset -a pids
pids=$(pgrep -P $parent)
while [[ -n "$pids" ]]; do
if (( ${#pids[@]} > 1 )); then
local i=0
while (( i < ${#pids[@]} )); do
local sub=$(pgrep -P ${pids[$i]})
[[ -n $sub ]] && parent=$sub
((i=i + 1))
done
else
parent=$pids
fi
pids=$(pgrep -P $parent)
done
echo $parent
}