Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'vre read somewhere (I think in one of perl's man pages) that you can use
> kill to send a "0 signal" to a process, to see if it is still
> runing.
POSIX says so, AFAIK.
> kill(2) man page seems to confirm that, saying that if sig is 0, no signal
> will be sent, but error checking is till performed
Same statement.
> I tried to use that method to check if a sub process I forked is
> still runing, and instead of returning 0 correctly (I checked with
> ps, the sub process is indeed running), it returns with the error
> code "Invalid argument". how come ?
Difficult to say. I just checked - it works for me (I can send you the
code if you like). What is this "invalid argument"? What is the errno
value? EINVAL?
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Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare]
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