On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:17:58 -0500, Errin Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Perlers, > > I'm trying to check on the status of a process by sending a SIGZERO to > it with kill(). This SHOULD (according to the docs I've been reading) > return false if the process died. But mine is not. It always returns > true.
<< SNIP >> > > But ... I always get back the TRUE response, "- 17455: ./dummy_script > is still ok.". Did I miss something? > > --Errin > I guess I should have pointed out that, at the OS prompt, I'm 'kill -9' ing one of those "dummy_script" processes so I can test what happens when it dies. --Errin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
