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From: samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to tell if a process exists
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Date: 9 Aug 90 20:03:02 GMT
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In article <1823@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>Wrong.  RTFM --  kill(pid, 0)

	Hmmm -- must be running Reverse Polish Unix down under, 'cause my
manual sez: " kill [-sig] processid... ", and I've been doing it that way
for a looooooooong time.

	What kind of UNIX _are_ you running??


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