[849] in Release_7.7_team
Re: What ho mailq bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 30 04:04:02 1997
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>, danw@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jan 1997 03:32:32 EST."
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 04:03:56 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The main reason I chose the find command I didwas that I didn't want
> to grovel over ps output even if I could determin the pid to look
> for,
You can use the success or failure of "kill -0 <pid> 2>/dev/null" to
determine if a process exists.
> Was this discussed at the release team meeting at all?
> Unfortunately I missed it and I haven't seen minutes yet.
I stated that I would use your implementation if no one came up with
anything better. The 24-hour delay doesn't bother me very much, and
I'd rather see something simple than something complicated.
