Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: Async IO | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 1997 01:06:47 -0500 (EST) |
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Signal 0 checks to see if the process exists.
If it does, it returns success, if it doesn't, it returns error.
Little known unix geek stuff..
- jared
Jurgen Botz graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > In article <vyzraj29l7p.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, > Andreas Schwab <schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > >|> signal number 0 is unused > > > >No, it's not. It has a defined meaning (see kill(2)). > > Hmm, my kill(2) manpage (readhat 4.0) doesn't mention anything > about signal number 0. Enlighten us? > > -- > Jurgen Botz "Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux?" > jbotz@reference.com >
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