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+?RCS: $Id$
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
+?RCS:
+?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
+?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
+?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
+?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
+?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
+?RCS:
+?RCS: $Log: d_pidcheck.U,v $
+?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1997/02/28 15:37:55 ram
+?RCS: patch61: replaced .o with $_o all over the place
+?RCS: patch61: added ?F: metalint hint
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:06:46 ram
+?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
+?RCS:
+?MAKE:d_pidcheck: cat rm +cc _o
+?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
+?S:d_pidcheck:
+?S: This variable conditionally defines the variable PIDCHECK
+?S: which indicates that kill(pid, 0) will check for an active pid.
+?S:.
+?C:PIDCHECK:
+?C: This symbol, if defined, means that the kill(pid, 0) will
+?C: check for an active pid (i.e. the kernel will run all the
+?C: necessary pid checks, but no signal is actually sent).
+?C:.
+?H:#$d_pidcheck PIDCHECK /**/
+?H:.
+?F:!try
+: check for "kill(pid, 0)"
+echo " "
+case "$d_pidcheck" in
+"$define")
+echo "I already know your system supports kill(pid, 0) for pid checks." >&4
+ ;;
+"$undef")
+echo "We both know your system does not support signal #0 for pid checks." >&4
+ ;;
+*)
+ echo "Checking to see if kill(pid, 0) works..." >&4
+ $cat >try.c <<'EOCP'
+int main()
+ {
+ int pid, status0, status9;
+
+ if ((pid = fork()) == 0)
+ {
+ sleep(30);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ status0 = kill(pid, 0);
+ status9 = kill(pid, 9);
+ exit(status0 == status9);
+ }
+EOCP
+ if $cc -o try try.c >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+ if ./try >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+ echo "Yes, it does marvels."
+ d_pidcheck="$undef"
+ else
+ d_pidcheck="$define"
+ echo "No, it doesn't."
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "(I was unable to compile the test program.)"
+ echo "Your system does not appear to support kill(pid, 0)."
+ d_pidcheck="$undef"
+ fi
+ $rm -f try.c try$_o try
+ ;;
+esac
+