On Mac OSX 10.4, ps -p$pid does not return a non-zero value if the process (identified by the pid) is not found. This seems to be a bug with the OSX 10.4 implementation of the ps utility.
Description
On Mac OSX 10.4, ps -p$pid does not return a non-zero value if the process (identified by the pid) is not found. This seems to be a bug with the OSX 10.4 implementation of the ps utility.
Bug
Closed
Major
Generated shell script for monitoring forked/exec'd services does not work on OSX 10.4