From: leon breedt <bitserf@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T15:13:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting process status

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:15:12 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
On Linux at least, you can send signal 0 to determine whether a
process is running or not.

Process#kill(0, 2323)

Over here, I get an Errno::ESRCH exception raised if the process is not running.

Leon