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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Sat Mar 1 15:53:02 2003 UTC (21 years, 2 months ago) by pcg
Content type: text/plain
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: poll-based-iom, VPE_0_9, VPE_1_2, VPE_1_4, VPE_1_6, rel-1_7, VPE-1_6_1, VPE_1_0
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# User Rev Content
1 pcg 1.1 /*
2     pidfile.h - interact with pidfiles
3     Copyright (c) 1995 Martin Schulze <Martin.Schulze@Linux.DE>
4    
5     This file is part of the sysklogd package, a kernel and system log daemon.
6    
7     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10     (at your option) any later version.
11    
12     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15     GNU General Public License for more details.
16    
17     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
20     */
21    
22     #if __cplusplus
23     extern "C" {
24     #endif
25    
26     /* read_pid
27     *
28     * Reads the specified pidfile and returns the read pid.
29     * 0 is returned if either there's no pidfile, it's empty
30     * or no pid can be read.
31     */
32     int read_pid (char *pidfile);
33    
34     /* check_pid
35     *
36     * Reads the pid using read_pid and looks up the pid in the process
37     * table (using /proc) to determine if the process already exists. If
38     * so 1 is returned, otherwise 0.
39     */
40     int check_pid (char *pidfile);
41    
42     /* write_pid
43     *
44     * Writes the pid to the specified file. If that fails 0 is
45     * returned, otherwise the pid.
46     */
47     int write_pid (char *pidfile);
48    
49     /* remove_pid
50     *
51     * Remove the the specified file. The result from unlink(2)
52     * is returned
53     */
54     int remove_pid (char *pidfile);
55    
56     #if __cplusplus
57     }
58     #endif