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Revision: 1.2
Committed: Thu Mar 3 16:54:34 2005 UTC (19 years, 9 months ago) by pcg
Content type: text/plain
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_9, rel-1_8, rel-2_01, rel-3_0, rel-2_2, rel-2_0, rel-2_21, rel-2_22, rel-2_25, HEAD
Changes since 1.1: +4 -2 lines
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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 pcg 1.2 This file is part of GVPE.
8    
9     GVPE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 pcg 1.1 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
12     (at your option) any later version.
13    
14     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17     GNU General Public License for more details.
18    
19     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 pcg 1.2 along with gvpe; if not, write to the Free Software
21 pcg 1.1 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
22     */
23    
24     #if __cplusplus
25     extern "C" {
26     #endif
27    
28     /* read_pid
29     *
30     * Reads the specified pidfile and returns the read pid.
31     * 0 is returned if either there's no pidfile, it's empty
32     * or no pid can be read.
33     */
34     int read_pid (char *pidfile);
35    
36     /* check_pid
37     *
38     * Reads the pid using read_pid and looks up the pid in the process
39     * table (using /proc) to determine if the process already exists. If
40     * so 1 is returned, otherwise 0.
41     */
42     int check_pid (char *pidfile);
43    
44     /* write_pid
45     *
46     * Writes the pid to the specified file. If that fails 0 is
47     * returned, otherwise the pid.
48     */
49     int write_pid (char *pidfile);
50    
51     /* remove_pid
52     *
53     * Remove the the specified file. The result from unlink(2)
54     * is returned
55     */
56     int remove_pid (char *pidfile);
57    
58     #if __cplusplus
59     }
60     #endif