teTeX: feature request: exec xdvi.bin in xdvi wrapper

"Bernd Westphal" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Moin.

Versions: up to and including 2.0.2

I would appreciate if the last line of the xdvi wrapper would be changed
from

  xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"}

to

  exec xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"}

or

  exec -a "$0" xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"}

in order to be able to get hold of the PID of the running 'xdvi.bin' in
the shell from which I call the wrapper.


As it is I only get the wrapper's PID when I want to do something like

  xdvi bla.dvi && echo $! > .xdvi.pid

with the intention to do 

  kill -USR1 `cat .xdvi.pid`

to request re-reading of the file...

Schoen'n Gruss
  Bernd Westphal
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