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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Process existence or/and permission Post 302999715 by chebarbudo on Monday 26th of June 2017 06:45:12 PM
Old 06-26-2017
Thanks rovf,
That would mostly work I think but beside the language barrier, I don't like relying on error messages that could vary from one implementation to another. But that's the best answer so far.

Thanks MadeInGermany,
My problem is that on some systems, there are some processes that I just don't see as a normal user (not only no permission, really don't see) so I cannot rely on ps. Take the following example:
Code:
santiago@alphard:~$ ps 1; echo $?
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
1

It looks like process 1 does not exists but kill and sudo prove otherwise:
Code:
santiago@alphard:~$ kill -0 1
-bash: kill: (1) - Operation not permitted
santiago@alphard:~$ sudo ps 1; echo $?
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        Ss     2:55 init [2]
0

 

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IO::Async::PID(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       IO::Async::PID(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::PID" - event callback on exit of a child process SYNOPSIS
use IO::Async::PID; use POSIX qw( WEXITSTATUS ); use IO::Async::Loop; my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new; my $kid = $loop->fork( code => sub { print "Child sleeping.. "; sleep 10; print "Child exiting "; return 20; }, ); print "Child process $kid started "; my $pid = IO::Async::PID->new( pid => $kid, on_exit => sub { my ( $self, $exitcode ) = @_; printf "Child process %d exited with status %d ", $self->pid, WEXITSTATUS($exitcode); }, ); $loop->add( $pid ); $loop->run; DESCRIPTION
This subclass of IO::Async::Notifier invokes its callback when a process exits. For most use cases, a IO::Async::Process object provides more control of setting up the process, connecting filehandles to it, sending data to and receiving data from it. EVENTS
The following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters: on_exit $exitcode Invoked when the watched process exits. PARAMETERS
The following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure": pid => INT The process ID to watch. Must be given before the object has been added to the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object. on_exit => CODE CODE reference for the "on_exit" event. Once the "on_exit" continuation has been invoked, the "IO::Async::PID" object is removed from the containing "IO::Async::Loop" object. METHODS
$process_id = $pid->pid Returns the underlying process ID $pid->kill( $signal ) Sends a signal to the process AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2012-10-24 IO::Async::PID(3pm)
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