From: ianc AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz (Ian Collins) Subject: Alive processes 2 Oct 1998 03:43:17 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)" How do you programmatically detect if a gnu process is still alive? On other Unix's I have performed some of the following, : Performed a popen of the command "ps -p 12345" and read the output. (Won't easily work for gnu-win32). : sent a kill -SIGUSR1 to the process, and check for an error coming back (have to be same user). : Looked for a directory in /proc (for Linux/svr4 Unixes, but not gnu-win32). : Read the kernel memory (hairy coding!). What would be the best way to do this under gnu-win32? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".