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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Controlling non-KDE processes
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2002-04-30 18:12:23
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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 
killing it with signal 0. If you don't receive the error ESRCH, it's still 
running.

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

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