Oswald Buddenhagen wrote
>> Any hints?
>
>yes, search the list archives (for ps, grep, bsd, sysv) - we had this
>question a few times during the last years. :)
>the problem is, that there is no standard across the unixes, so there is
>no simple answer to this question. if your app is not supposed to be
>portable, direct access to /proc is your friend.

The best way is to read the PID file the application writes and keep on=20
killing it with signal 0. If you don't receive the error ESRCH, it's still=
=20
running.

=46rom the man page (kill(2)):
CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, SVID, POSIX.1, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3, POSIX 1003.1-2001

=2D-=20
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