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Statix

Member

From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Linking Processes

I'm looking to make a little bash script to start and "link" two processes together.

Basically, when one starts the other starts, and when one ends the other ends.

To be specific I'm trying to link Ventrilo on wine with ventriloctrl.

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Eradest

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 56

Re: Linking Processes

Not sure whether this works, seems rather hack-ish.

#!/bin/bash
process1
process2

while true
do
  sleep 1
  pidof process1 > /dev/null || break && killall process2
  pidof process2 > /dev/null || break && killall process1
done