Check if a process exists in go way

Question

If I have the PID of a process, is os.FindProcess enough to test for the existing of the process? I mean if it returns err can I assume that it\'s terminated (o

Answer 1

All the answers so far are incomplete implementations. See https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/c141152a7b8f59b63e060fa8450f5cd5e7196dfb/process/process_posix.go#L73 for a more complete implementation (copied inline)

    func PidExists(pid int32) (bool, error) {
        if pid <= 0 {
            return false, fmt.Errorf("invalid pid %v", pid)
        }
        proc, err := os.FindProcess(int(pid))
        if err != nil {
            return false, err
        }
        err = proc.Signal(syscall.Signal(0))
        if err == nil {
            return true, nil
        }
        if err.Error() == "os: process already finished" {
            return false, nil
        }
        errno, ok := err.(syscall.Errno)
        if !ok {
            return false, err
        }
        switch errno {
        case syscall.ESRCH:
            return false, nil
        case syscall.EPERM:
            return true, nil
        }
        return false, err
    }