• Antelope Release 5.9 Mac OS X 10.13.2 2019-05-01

 

NAME

pid_exists - return 1 if process is running

SYNOPSIS

#include "stock.h"

int pid_exists(int pid) ;

DESCRIPTION

pid_exists returns one if a process with process id pid exists in the process table, zero otherwise.

LIBRARY

$(STOCKLIBS)

ATTRIBUTES

MT-Safe

SEE ALSO

pidinfo(3)

BUGS AND CAVEATS

This is just checking /proc/pid under Linux, but it's lots more complicated in Darwin.

AUTHOR

Daniel Quinlan
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