Determining if process is alive on a different node

[Joel Reymont]

It seems that a link with an unlink should do the trick but a receive  
is needed between the two since link will send EXIT with reason  
noproc if the process does not exist.

What is a good timeout for the receive?

     Thanks, Joel

On Aug 15, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have a pid but I don't know if it's a local one. How would I  
> determine if the process is alive?