os.kill........

[Erik Max Francis]

Martin Franklin wrote:

> I'm looking for a way of determining if a process is still running
> (having
> spawned it from a python app), I have come up with os.kill(PID, 0)
> this will raise an exception if the process does not exist, and doe
> nothing
> if the process does exist.  The sig of zero does not _seem_ to affect
> it
> (at least not on my linux box)

This is fairly standard idiom under UNIX.  Often more harmless calls are
made, such as getpriority (of which I don't know if there's a Python
equivalent).

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