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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to tell if a process exists
Message-ID: <13534@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Aug 90 21:47:42 GMT
References: <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.

Doing what, incorrectly reading your manual?