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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Controlling non-KDE processes
From:       Christian Nitschkowski <segfault_ii () web ! de>
Date:       2002-05-01 14:33:41
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Am Dienstag, 30. April 2002 20:12 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> 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
Thanks.
I'll try that.

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