From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T14:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting process status

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:31:41 +0900, ES <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org> wrote:
> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > If I have the id of a process, how can I get a Process::Status object for it?
> 
> Calling Process#wait should set $? which is the Status object
> for the given pid.
> 

That's not quite what I asked for.  I have the pid of a specific
process and I need to find out its status (whether or not it's running
or not).