libexplain/process_exists.c File Reference

#include <libexplain/ac/errno.h>
#include <libexplain/ac/signal.h>
#include <libexplain/process_exists.h>

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Functions
int	explain_process_exists (pid_t pid)

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Function Documentation

int explain_process_exists

(

pid_t

pid

)

The explain_process_exists function may be used to determine whether or not the given process actually exists.

Parameters:

pid	The process ID to search for.

Returns:

boolean; true (non zero) if the process exists, false 9zero) if the process does not exists.

Note:

This has inevitable race conditions, because we aren't in the kernel, and can't take the appropriate lock.

Definition at line 27 of file process_exists.c.