How to tell if a process exists

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <3817 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>In a C program, how do you tell if a certain process exists? A
>>kill(0,pid) works only if you own the process (or you're root).
>
>Wrong.  "kill(0, pid)" ...

Wrong.  RTFM --  kill(pid, 0)


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