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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to tell if a process exists
Message-ID: <1823@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 9 Aug 90 01:09:17 GMT
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In article <3817@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>In a C program, how do you tell if a certain process exists? A
>>kill(0,pid) works only if you own the process (or you're root).
>
>Wrong.  "kill(0, pid)" ...

Wrong.  RTFM --  kill(pid, 0)


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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