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From: terryl@osf.osf.org (Terry Laskodi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to tell if a process exists
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Date: 10 Aug 90 22:16:13 GMT
References: <26B867F8.38BB@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> <3817@auspex.auspex.com> <1823@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <7733@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <7733@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Sam Bassett RCS) writes:
>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??


     Well, you're both right. Boyd was describing kill(2); Sam was describing
kill(1).....