man alive () - check if a process is executing.

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alive - check if a process is executing.

Abz Library (-labz), Debug Library (-ldebug)

#include <abz/alive.h>

int alive(const char *name");

The alive() function check if any process with name name is currently executing.

The alive() function returns 1 if a process with name name is executing, 0 if not, and -1 if some error occurred.

Check errno to see what error occurred.

None of the libabz routines are thread-safe. I'm not planning to change this either! For more information, please see http://threading.2038bug.com/

Written by Abraham vd Merwe <abz@blio.com>