Used to determine if a process pid is running from node.js.
expect(1234).to.be.alive;
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July 11, 2012 06:28
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Chai helper to check if a pid is running.
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| chai.Assertion.addProperty('alive', function () { | |
| new chai.Assertion(this._obj).to.be.a('number'); | |
| var alive = true | |
| , pid = this._obj; | |
| try { process.kill(pid, 0); } | |
| catch (ex) { if (ex.code == 'ESRCH') alive = false; } | |
| this.assert( | |
| alive === true | |
| , 'expected pid #{this} to be alive' | |
| , 'expected pid #{this} to not be alive' | |
| ); | |
| }); |
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