Summary - How to tell if a process is active

[Frank I. Reiter]

In article <763 at ctisbv.UUCP> pim at ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>Then there is a system crash,
>the system is rebooted, and the application is restarteds,
>AND IS RUNNING WITH THE EXACT SAME PID! Hence, when it finds
>the lockfile, it checks for its pid and finds out it exists,

>So I am looking for some way to put some extra information into
>the lockfile to find out if the machine has been rebooted
>since the resource claim.

Have your startup code do something like "touch /etc/startup-file" .
Now your applications can compare the modification date on this
file to the modification date on your lock files.

A better alternative (IMHO) is to have a cleanup script in your startup
code which deletes any extraneous lock files.  This eliminates the need
to check dates at run time.


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