Child PID

Child PID

[Todd Poole]

I am in process of trying to process dumper on a pid. The pid I need to 
dump is a child of another program. If I use ps -W from command line and 
use the pid associated with the child all is well. I need it to be 
executed from a script. I have tried the following:

Firefox &
set plugin-container.exe
dumper $PID $(ps -W | awk "/plugin-container.exe/,NF=8")

Firefox is the parent that is opening. I have tried to isolate the child 
(plugin-container.exe) from the Command and get the pid but have not 
been successful. The PID is coming from the parent. Any suggestions 
greatly appreciaed.
Thanks

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Re: Child PID

[Brian.Inglis]

Todd Poole <tpoole <at> mail.com> writes:

> 
> I am in process of trying to process dumper on a pid. The pid I need to 
> dump is a child of another program. If I use ps -W from command line and 
> use the pid associated with the child all is well. I need it to be 
> executed from a script. I have tried the following:
> 
> Firefox &
> set plugin-container.exe
> dumper $PID $(ps -W | awk "/plugin-container.exe/,NF=8")
> 
> Firefox is the parent that is opening. I have tried to isolate the child 
> (plugin-container.exe) from the Command and get the pid but have not 
> been successful. The PID is coming from the parent. Any suggestions 
> greatly appreciaed.
> Thanks
> 

Try this approach to access a page using a plugin requiring the container:

cygstart http://bbc.co.uk 
winpid='' 
while [ -z "$winpid" ] 
do
	winpid=$(ps -W | awk '/plugin-container/ { print $4 ; print $0 >
"/dev/stderr" }') 
	sleep 1 
done 
echo dumper plugin-container $winpid 
dumper plugin-container $winpid
ls -gGho *.core

output:

     5884       0       0       5884  ?          0 23:50:02 C:\Program Files
(x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe
dumper plugin-container 5884
-rw-r--r--+ 1 120M Feb 13 23:51 plugin-container.core



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