Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dsac.dla.mil!dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil!nts0302 From: nts0302@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Bob Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to tell if a process exists Message-ID: <2372@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> Date: 13 Aug 90 11:51:34 GMT References: <13534@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Lines: 16 From article <13534@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn): } 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? They're both right. They're just reading different sections of the manual. -- Bob Fisher US Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center DSAC-TSX, Box 1605, Columbus, OH 43216-5002 614-238-9071 (AV 850-9071) bfisher@dsac.dla.mil osu-cis!dsacg1!bfisher