[Chicago-talk] pid files and whatchamacalits.

[Steven Lembark]

-- Jim Thomason <jthomasoniii at yahoo.com>

> If you're guaranteed that the script has a unique
> name, you could always just do a ps (however you
> prefer) and check to see if it's running in there.
>
> Still not exactly pretty, but it saves you the temp
> file.

Is there a logic race in the process table code? I think
there might be if you use the perl lib's to handle it
(don't know if qx introduces enough delay to possibly
thwart ps).


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