On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Kludgy it is :P but using kill to detect the presence of a process is > actually reasonably portable AFAIK, and safe :-)
Well, yeah, it looked ugly enough to be portable. ;) > > I think this works no matter how the things are interleaved after forking. > > I like it. It also allows us to keep [A] around for a little while if we > wish to do so, to detect startup errors of other sorts... Okay, I've committed this. Take a look and let me know what you think. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
