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pgrep is great, but note that you can still encounter this problem if you run pgrep in parallel -- it will never match its own process, but it will match other
by hddqsb 5y ago
pgrep is great, but note that you can still encounter this problem if you run pgrep in parallel -- it will never match its own process, but it will match other pgrep processes.
So for example if you have a script that uses `pgrep -f banana` to search for a "banana" process, and you run that script twice in parallel, pgrep might see the other pgrep process and think "banana" is running even though it isn't.
I was bitten by this :)