Extremly sorry - it _was_ an invalid argument :-)
the man page clearly state :
int kill(pid_t pid, int sig);
while my code reads :
if (kill(0,_pidChild)) {
again, sorry...
Oded
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Linux-IL Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:37
Subject: Re: Finding if a process is runing.
> check the kill(2) manual for the error codes returned by the kill() system
> call. "Invalid argument" (EINVAL) means that you specified an invalid
signal.
> 0 is _not_ an invalid signal, so maybe you got the code wrong - can you
> post a short code section?
> The diagnostics you should expect from kill() is either success, or
failure
> with errno being ESRCH (the process does not exist), or EPERM (the process
> does in fact exist, but it is not yours).
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