Anybody know the 'correct' way of determining if a pid still
exists? I've been using "kill(pid, 0)" and, if it does not
return an error, it is supposed to exist. This is to release
a user-mode lock (semaphore) if the task that held the lock
crashed. Maybe there is a 'if_exist_pid(pid)' call somewhere?
Sending signal 0 to a pid sometimes returns 0, even if the pid
is long-gone and I don't want to read /proc to look for info.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Windows-2000/Professional isn't.
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