Re: unix shell script ignores 'exit' when in function that is piped to tee

From: CV (or254498_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:54:24 +0100

Lew Pitcher wrote:
> What you didn't take into account is that the pipe causes the left hand side
> of the command to be executed in a child process, and the stdout of that child
> process is fed into the stdin of the parent process that's running the right
> hand side of the command.

There is still something that I don't understand here.

If there is a child process it should have a different process-id,
right ?

But I tried printing out the pid to a file from within the
child (echo $$>>funpid) and the result was the same pid as
the parent !?

Cheers CV

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