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From: wwp <subscript@free.fr>
Subject: Re: static or stuff like that
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:09:33 +0200
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Hi Glynn,


On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:52:39 +0100 Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net> wrote:

> 
> Wrazlov wrote:
> 
> > I want to control whether a process is already running or not, and i don't 
> > know how without using some kind of lock-files
> 
> You can scan the files under /proc/<pid> to obtain details about which
> processes are running. E.g. /proc/<pid>/exe is a symlink to the
> program which process <pid> is executing.

Is /proc always available? (if not, how to do what Wrazlov asked?)


Regards

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wwp