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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Sat Mar 1 15:53:02 2003 UTC (21 years, 3 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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# Content
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