Add process_is_alive() to client/bin/base_utils. Use a smart pgrep command which finds the python processes not found by plain pgrep.
Signed-off-by: Duane Sand <[email protected]>
git-svn-id: http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk@3617 592f7852-d20e-0410-864c-8624ca9c26a4
diff --git a/client/bin/base_utils.py b/client/bin/base_utils.py
index d6099dc..c7a1a06 100755
--- a/client/bin/base_utils.py
+++ b/client/bin/base_utils.py
@@ -653,3 +653,13 @@
utils.system("sync")
# We ignore failures here as this will fail on 2.6.11 kernels.
utils.system("echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", ignore_status=True)
+
+
+def process_is_alive(name):
+ """
+ 'pgrep name' misses all python processes and also long process names.
+ 'pgrep -f name' gets all shell commands with name in args.
+ So look only for command whose first nonblank word ends with name.
+ """
+ return utils.system("pgrep -f '^[^ ]*%s\W'" % name,
+ ignore_status=True) == 0
