init: pid of running process should be provided to side-along processes

[Trevor Turk]

Binary package hint: upstart

This is a feature request. I would like to have access to the pid after starting a long running script that does not daemonize. If the pid was put into the env, that would be great.

Here's an example of what I'm doing now in order to get the pid, which is not so much fun:

http://flowcoder.com/170

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

# apt-cache policy upstart
upstart:
  Installed: 0.6.3-11

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Agreed, it should be made available in those processes that run alongside. It probably makes sense to include it in the event as well, so you could do:

  on started apache
  script
    .. $APACHE_PID ...
  end script