tinc/lib/pidfile.h
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/*
pidfile.h - interact with pidfiles
Copyright (c) 1995 Martin Schulze <Martin.Schulze@Linux.DE>
This file is part of the sysklogd package, a kernel and system log daemon.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
*/
/* read_pid
*
* Reads the specified pidfile and returns the read pid.
* 0 is returned if either there's no pidfile, it's empty
* or no pid can be read.
*/
int read_pid (char *pidfile);
/* check_pid
*
* Reads the pid using read_pid and looks up the pid in the process
* table (using /proc) to determine if the process already exists. If
* so 1 is returned, otherwise 0.
*/
int check_pid (char *pidfile);
/* write_pid
*
* Writes the pid to the specified file. If that fails 0 is
* returned, otherwise the pid.
*/
int write_pid (char *pidfile);
/* remove_pid
*
* Remove the the specified file. The result from unlink(2)
* is returned
*/
int remove_pid (char *pidfile);