Re: processes

[Karlis Peisenieks]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, James wrote:

> if i know the pid of a process, how can i find out it's status? (i.e
> running, blocked, ready, zombie, invalid pid...)

cat /proc/<pid>/status

(or in custom programm - read this file and extract necessary
information. If directory /proc/<pid> does not exist - invalid pid.)

Karlis