Subject: Safe Way to Tell if Process is Running
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:39:41 -0600
From: Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu
About 20 years ago, I saw some code in which you
verified whether or not a process was running by giving it a
kill -0 command. If the process was
Robert Bonomi writes:
'man 2 kill' tells all.
I believe that is the first or second time I have used
Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ###
/dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output
ps -p 54321 /dev/null date ran the date command if there was
Robert Bonomi writes:
'man 2 kill' tells all.
I believe that is the first or second time I have used
Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ###
/dev/null appears to do what I need without producing output
ps -p 54321 /dev/null date ran the date command if there was
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:50:38 -0600
Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu wrote:
Robert Bonomi writes:
'man 2 kill' tells all.
I believe that is the first or second time I have used
Section 2. I appreciate the reminder. It looks like ps -p ###
/dev/null appears to do what I need
