From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T23:42:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting process status

> -----Original Message-----
> From: leon breedt [mailto:bitserf@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:13 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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.

It works on all platforms, including Windows (with Ruby 1.8.x).

Regards,

Dan