Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:31 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best means of telling if a proc is still around? Message-ID: <199807130807.KAA04341@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:45:30 EDT." <9807122245.ZM24864@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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> Hi. What's the best fast means of telling if a reference to a proc > structure is still valid? I'm needing this for the work on privileges > that I'm doing. (Specifically, there are circumstances where an action > initiated by a process that then exits may be a privileged one, and > may not get to the point of checking the privileges before the exit > takes place.) Use at_exit(9) to know when it exits. If it is important to you an at_exec(9) might be needed, too. The latter does not exist, yet. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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