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in reply to Unix process number on a mac...

What are you trying to do? If you just want to check if the process is still running, use kill() with the 0 signal. It tells you if the process is still running. If it isn't running, just restart it.

kill 0, $pid;
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Re^2: Unix process number on a mac...
by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Mar 16, 2005 at 02:50 UTC
    brian_d_foy++ :)
    This works on the mac. I didn't know about the 0 kill signal. (I knew 9 to 'really' kill a process but I will google the rest...) Thanks!


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