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authorDaniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>2018-07-19 04:05:28 +0200
committerDaniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>2018-07-19 04:05:28 +0200
commit145550408bbe53f5bfb8b0211bacc5129d7b3117 (patch)
treea099f400057fb298e55db0cd24789f5b3abedee1 /python/vyos
parentf19cfb3a82554d5389bce994492969ed737dd3d8 (diff)
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Add a function for quickly checking running processes by their PID files.
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-rw-r--r--python/vyos/util.py7
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diff --git a/python/vyos/util.py b/python/vyos/util.py
index 8b3de7999..11a75c14b 100644
--- a/python/vyos/util.py
+++ b/python/vyos/util.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
# License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
import re
+import psutil
def colon_separated_to_dict(data_string, uniquekeys=False):
@@ -63,3 +64,9 @@ def colon_separated_to_dict(data_string, uniquekeys=False):
pass
return data
+
+def process_running(pid_file):
+ """ Checks if a process with PID in pid_file is running """
+ with open(pid_file, 'r') as f:
+ pid = f.read().strip()
+ return psutil.pid_exists(int(pid))