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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: procalive(1) arrives, kill -e ditto
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 17:46:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 17:46:53 1984
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Kill(1) has had a -e option added to permit use of the new signal 0 to
test for the existence of processes.  Procalive(1) is a new utility
which uses kill -e in the appropriate way, returning an exit code suitable
for use in shell programs.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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