How do I check if a pid is running?

[Michael Hudson]

"Noah Spurrier" <noah at noah.org> writes:

> The fact that nobody really fully complies with POSIX seems to make
> this whole notion of portability a cruel joke anyway.

If you like cringing, look at the code to posixmodule in the Python
source sometime.

Cheers,
M.

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