If not, would it be a good idea to implement this (I think very primitive) function in the os module?
Thanks, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Suppose we have a program that writes its process id into a pid file.
Usually the program deletes the pid file when it exists... But in some
cases (for example, killed with kill -9 or TerminateProcess) pid file is
left there. I would like to know if a process (given with its process
id) is still running or not. I know that this can be done with OS
specific calls. But that is not portable. It can also be done by
executing "ps -p 23423" with subprocess module, but that is not portable
either. Is there a portable way to do this?
- Portable way to tell if a process is still alive Laszlo Nagy
