05-21-2010
dead process == zombie? What is your definition of a dead process?
The OS cycles the pid of new processes from 1 -> signed short max for most systems.
You should be checking the user/owner of the file and looking for the both the pid and the user. Not just a pid. pids are reused constantly. lsof will tell you if a process still has the file open, if that is the source of your problem.
What OS do you have? Does your system have mandatory locking -- i.e., Apps like weblogic lock directories, do you have something like that running?
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pid(n) Tcl Built-In Commands pid(n)
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NAME
pid - Retrieve process identifiers
SYNOPSIS
pid ?fileId?
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DESCRIPTION
If the fileId argument is given then it should normally refer to a process pipeline created with the open command. In this case the pid
command will return a list whose elements are the process identifiers of all the processes in the pipeline, in order. The list will be
empty if fileId refers to an open file that is not a process pipeline. If no fileId argument is given then pid returns the process identi-
fier of the current process. All process identifiers are returned as decimal strings.
EXAMPLE
Print process information about the processes in a pipeline using the SysV ps program before reading the output of that pipeline:
set pipeline [open "| zcat somefile.gz | grep foobar | sort -u"]
# Print process information
exec ps -fp [pid $pipeline] >@stdout
# Print a separator and then the output of the pipeline
puts [string repeat - 70]
puts [read $pipeline]
close $pipeline
SEE ALSO
exec(n), open(n)
KEYWORDS
file, pipeline, process identifier
Tcl 7.0 pid(n)