Re: off-topic ->UNIX question

• Santosh Varma <vsantosh_at_psi.soft.net>

> Hello all,
>
> I get a process id by calling getProcessId()..I want to know from
> program whether that processId exists.
> Any way to find out how ?

Depends on the O/s. Simplest way is to grep the output of ps. On systems with a /proc file system (e.g., linux, Solaris) you can look for /proc/$id.

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