Re: funny bug

[Fredric Fredricson <fredric.fredriksson@example.com>]

Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> 
> I want to share with you a bug in my shell script I discovered
> yesterday. The script was in production for quite a while...
> 
> In the shell script I test if a process is running:
> 
> if [ `ps -ef | grep [pP]rog_name | wc -l` -ne 0 ]
> 
Why not:
if killall -0 prog_name ?

/Fredric