How to tell if a process exists

[Bob Fisher]

>From article <13534 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
} In article <7733 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov> samlb at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Sam Bassett RCS) writes:
} -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.
} 
} Doing what, incorrectly reading your manual?

They're both right.  They're just reading different sections of the manual.
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Bob Fisher
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