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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:44:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Arg! Siginfo and pthreads again
Message-ID:  <200012032144.QAA62661@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001203131433.10999A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from Daniel Eischen at "Dec 3, 2000 01:18:03 pm"

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> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Peter Dufault wrote:
> > Again I've forgotten that SIGINFO dumps the pthread info and created
> > several gigabytes of /tmp files:
> > 
> > > rt% rm /tmp/uthread*
> > > /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
> > 
> > I don't consider it bad form to use SIGINFO to see if processes are
> > still around without first installing a SIGINFO handler.
> 
> Can't you use `kill -0 pid` if you just want to see if the process
> is around?

Yes, I can and I should.  I guess I forgot. I'll fix my code.

Peter

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Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime development, Machine control,
HD Associates, Inc.               Fail-Safe systems, Agency approval


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