processes

1999-04-13 Thread James
if i know the pid of a process, how can i find out it's status? (i.e running, blocked, ready, zombie, invalid pid...) -- +++ If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.penguinpowered.com/~a_out

Re: processes

1999-04-13 Thread Karlis Peisenieks
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, James wrote: if i know the pid of a process, how can i find out it's status? (i.e running, blocked, ready, zombie, invalid pid...) cat /proc/pid/status (or in custom programm - read this file and extract necessary information. If directory /proc/pid does not exist -

Re: sub processes

1998-04-30 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
There are a number of possible solotions to this problem: 1. There might be a way to tell MARC to stay as a foregound process. Most programs that by default puts themselves as a background process has a command-line option to stay as a foreground process. 2. If you have control of where the