Re: Async IO

Jared Mauch (jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net)
Mon, 3 Feb 1997 01:06:47 -0500 (EST)


Signal 0 checks to see if the process exists.

If it does, it returns success, if it doesn't, it returns
error.

Little known unix geek stuff..

- jared

Jurgen Botz graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> In article <vyzraj29l7p.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >|> signal number 0 is unused
> >
> >No, it's not. It has a defined meaning (see kill(2)).
>
> Hmm, my kill(2) manpage (readhat 4.0) doesn't mention anything
> about signal number 0. Enlighten us?
>
> --
> Jurgen Botz "Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux?"
> jbotz@reference.com
>