Re: Detecting if a program is currently running.

2004-12-27 Thread Brian
Thanks, that does the trick. Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Yeah, but it takes work on both ends. You could wrap your mpg123 in a > shell script like so: > > #!/bin/sh > mpg123 "$@" & > echo $! >/tmp/mpg123.pid > > > Or in python 2.4: > > #!/usr/bin/env pyt

Re: Detecting if a program is currently running.

2004-12-26 Thread Mike Meyer
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a Slackware 9.1 box, I'm trying to detect if mpg123 is currently > running/playing a song so that when the song is done, it'll play the next > in the list. The problem is that popen'ing ps doesn't always give a > correct return. My function is below and

Detecting if a program is currently running.

2004-12-26 Thread Brian
On a Slackware 9.1 box, I'm trying to detect if mpg123 is currently running/playing a song so that when the song is done, it'll play the next in the list. The problem is that popen'ing ps doesn't always give a correct return. My function is below and I added a second check that runs 1 second