How to tell if a process exists

[Sam Bassett RCS]

In article <1823 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>Wrong.  RTFM --  kill(pid, 0)

	Hmmm -- must be running Reverse Polish Unix down under, 'cause my
manual sez: " kill [-sig] processid... ", and I've been doing it that way
for a looooooooong time.

	What kind of UNIX _are_ you running??


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