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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: How to query active processes from Ada
Date: 1997/01/03
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James d'Eon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   I have a situation where I am trying to determine if a process is active. I
> do know the process ID. This is pretty simple from the command line by using
> the 'ps' command, but I have not been successful yet in implementing this in
> Ada. Has anyone out there tried this, or have any ideas to point me in the
> right direction?

That's a UNIX question, not an Ada question. Check the Unix man pages on
your system (sections 2 and 3). Just call the appropriate Unix system
calls from your Ada program.

Alternatively, you could ask in one of the Unix newsgroups.

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