rsyslog/tools/pidfile.h
Rainer Gerhards d9b0c77d3e some more cleanup
reduced dependencies, moved non-runtime files to its own directory except
for some whom's status is unclear
2008-04-16 15:27:53 +02:00

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/*
pidfile.h - interact with pidfiles
Copyright (c) 1995 Martin Schulze <Martin.Schulze@Linux.DE>
* This file is part of rsyslog.
*
* Rsyslog 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 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Rsyslog 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 Rsyslog. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* A copy of the GPL can be found in the file "COPYING" in this distribution.
*/
/* 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);