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Walter Su commented on HADOOP-12105:
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This issue can be easily fix by deleting the pid file manually. It's very 
rare(because of PIDs wrap around), possible though.

> Avoid returning 0 , while fetching the status of a process ,which is not 
> running.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-12105
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12105
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: J.Andreina
>            Assignee: J.Andreina
>
> If the process(Namenode) is crashed there will be stale pid file . 
> Any other JVM process might get allocated with the same pid as that of the 
> content of stale pid file. 
> As per current implementation for fetching the status : 
>          we check if any process is running with pid (fetched from 
> corresponding process pid file) then returns 0.
> {code}
>     if ps -p "${pid}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>       return 0
>     fi
> {code}
> *So while fetching the status of namenode return code will be 0 , even if the 
> namenode process is not running (because some other process is assigned with 
> same pid  ).*
>       Can we check status of process as below 
> {code}
>     if  ps -fp pid | grep process_classname > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>       return 0
>     fi
> {code}
> Please provide your feedback.



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