[OT] remove process or file [was Re: [plug] funny process name]

[Bernd Felsche]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:19:56PM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> >>I'm sure there's a better way to test for a process with given ID ($p) 
> >>other than testing for a file in /proc, but not sure how?

> >kill -0 $p && kill -KILL $p

> guess that would make sense ;-) the -0 option sends signal 0 (which does 
> nothing) to the process, so effectively just tests for the pid.. right?

Right.

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