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Function rc_make_pid_file¶

Defined in File start_stop.h

Function Documentation¶

int rc_make_pid_file(void)¶

Makes a PID file RC_PID_FILE (/run/shm/robotcontrol.pid) containing the current PID of your process.

Returns: Returns 0 if successful. If that file already exists then it is not touched and this function returns 1 at which point we suggest you run rc_kill_exising_process() to kill that process. Returns -1 if there is some other problem writing to the file.