Robin Becker wrote:
> I'm trying out the denyhosts port; it starts up and performs as expected,
> but it won't recognize a running instance as this python if test fails.
> Is there a more freebsd way for python to find out if a given process is
> running?
>
> if os.access(os.path.join("/proc", str(pid)), os.F_OK):
> return pid
> else:
> return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS
>
If you know the pid, see whether you can deliver a continue signal to it:
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGCONT)
return pid
except OSError:
return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS
--
-Chuck
PS: "STALE_LOCK_EXISTS", maybe...? :-)
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