How to Move a Running Process Into a New Task

This example shows how to associate a running process with a different task and project. To perform this task, you must either be superuser, or be the owner of the process and be a member of the new project.

1. Become superuser.

2. Obtain the process ID of the book_catalog process.

   # pgrep book_catalog 8100

3. Associate process 8100 with a new task ID in the booksite project.

   # newtask -v -p booksite -c 8100 17

   The -c option specifies that newtask operate on the existing named process.

4. Confirm the task to process ID mapping.

   # pgrep -T 17 8100