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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: How to determine wether a process is still running?
From:       Preston Brown <pbrown () econ ! yale ! edu>
Date:       1998-05-08 17:56:14
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Mirko Sucker wrote:

> Hello KDE developers,
> I want to check wether a process with a given pid is still running. Is there a
> call for this? I have a pid out of a lockfile of kab and want to check if I may
> remove the lockfile.

Guess what?  Sirtaj and myself BOTH want this also.  I think a standard
class for this should be a part of kdecore.  I am willing to code it if
someone points me in the right direction for the syscall(s) I am going to
need to check the process table for a particular PID...

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Preston Brown      Yale Economics Dept. System Admin     pbrown@econ.yale.edu

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