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From:	Nowakowski Maciej-AMN011 <maciej DOT nowakowski AT motorola DOT com>
To:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	kill(pid, 0) issue
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:23:20 +0100
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Hi all,

My application creates additional process using fork() function. Created child process listens on a socket and exits when it receives anything. The main process checks the child PID using kill(pid, 0) with child PID as a parameter. Even when the child has exited this function call returns 0. When I have supplied any PID which hasn't ever existed it's fine and kill(non-existentPID, 0) returns -1.

Has anyone experienced something like this?

I'm using Cygwin 1.5.5 version(DLL version).

Regards,

MacNowak

P.S. For now I'm using kill(pid, SIGCONT) as a workaround.

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