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1?RCS: $Id: d_pidcheck.U,v 3.0.1.1 1997/02/28 15:37:55 ram Exp $
2?RCS:
3?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
4?RCS:
5?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
6?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
7?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
8?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
9?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
10?RCS:
11?RCS: $Log: d_pidcheck.U,v $
12?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1997/02/28 15:37:55 ram
13?RCS: patch61: replaced .o with $_o all over the place
14?RCS: patch61: added ?F: metalint hint
15?RCS:
16?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:06:46 ram
17?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
18?RCS:
19?MAKE:d_pidcheck: cat rm +cc _o
20?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
21?S:d_pidcheck:
22?S: This variable conditionally defines the variable PIDCHECK
23?S: which indicates that kill(pid, 0) will check for an active pid.
24?S:.
25?C:PIDCHECK:
26?C: This symbol, if defined, means that the kill(pid, 0) will
27?C: check for an active pid (i.e. the kernel will run all the
28?C: necessary pid checks, but no signal is actually sent).
29?C:.
30?H:#$d_pidcheck PIDCHECK /**/
31?H:.
32?F:!try
33: check for "kill(pid, 0)"
34echo " "
35case "$d_pidcheck" in
36"$define")
37echo "I already know your system supports kill(pid, 0) for pid checks." >&4
38 ;;
39"$undef")
40echo "We both know your system does not support signal #0 for pid checks." >&4
41 ;;
42*)
43 echo "Checking to see if kill(pid, 0) works..." >&4
44 $cat >try.c <<'EOCP'
45main()
46 {
47 int pid, status0, status9;
48
49 if ((pid = fork()) == 0)
50 {
51 sleep(30);
52 exit(1);
53 }
54 status0 = kill(pid, 0);
55 status9 = kill(pid, 9);
56 exit(status0 == status9);
57 }
58EOCP
59 if $cc -o try try.c >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
60 if ./try >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
61 echo "Yes, it does marvels."
62 d_pidcheck="$undef"
63 else
64 d_pidcheck="$define"
65 echo "No, it doesn't."
66 fi
67 else
68 echo "(I was unable to compile the test program.)"
69 echo "Your system does not appear to support kill(pid, 0)."
70 d_pidcheck="$undef"
71 fi
72 $rm -f try.c try$_o try
73 ;;
74esac
75