From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T02:27:00+09:00
Subject: Re: determining if a process is alive on windows

On 10/3/07, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
> #
>   def alive pid
> #--{{{
>     pid = Integer("#{ pid }")
>     begin
>       Process::kill 0, pid
>       true
>     rescue Errno::ESRCH
>       false
>     end
> #--}}}
>   end
>   alias alive? alive
>   export 'alive', 'alive?'
>
>
> i expect it won't work on windows but maybe i'm wrong?  if so can
> someone suggest code to accomplish this task?

It works for me on windows too, but I've got 2 questions:

I get "undefined method `export' for main:Object (NoMethodError)"
What does export do?  Where is it defined?

And what are these comments for?
#---{{{
#---}}}

thanks,
-Adam