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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/systeminfo.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/systeminfo.py b/tools/systeminfo.py index ba490946..9d8eb5cb 100644 --- a/tools/systeminfo.py +++ b/tools/systeminfo.py @@ -168,6 +168,14 @@ def get_pid(proc_name_str): """ return get_pids([proc_name_str]) +def pid_isalive(pid): + """ Checks if given PID is alive + + :param pid: PID of the process + :returns: True if given process is running, False otherwise + """ + return os.path.isdir('/proc/' + str(pid)) + # This function uses long switch per purpose, so let us suppress pylint warning too-many-branches # pylint: disable=R0912 def get_version(app_name): |