/var/run with pids is also present in FreeBSD 5.x+ But it's just a dumpspace for these things..
It still doesn't add anything useful :) I think there's some syscall to do what "ps" does basicly. Might be worth looking at, that way you won't depend on external crap. Ales > At least FreeBSD 4 has a pid-file in /var/run: > > $ ls /var/run/ > cron.pid emacs ld.so.hints ppp sshd.pid > dev.db inetd.pid log printer syslog.pid > dhcpd isdnd.pid mountd.pid run utmp > dmesg.boot ld-elf.so.hints moused.pid sendmail.pid > > $ cat /var/run/cron.pid > 122 > > $ ps aux|grep cron > root 122 0,0 0,1 1056 768 ?? Ss 12:14am 0:00,00 /usr/sbin/cron > > Don't know about os version 5 or 6 or 7 though ... > > HTH, > Marc > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
