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Get the PID of a running process, or null
if it couldn't be found. Tested on
Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. Guaranteed not to work on Windows.
var pidof = require('pidof');
pidof('cron', function (err, pid) {
if (err) {
console.log('Weird error getting PIDs');
console.log(err);
} else {
if (pid) {
console.log('Found cron at pid ' + pid);
} else {
console.log('Seems like there\'s no cron on this system');
}
}
});
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Get PID of a running process
We found that pidof demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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