On March 20, niall at linux.ie said:
>> My ps version works fine, but I was just about to change to the kill -0 way
> when I thought of PID reuse - a small error possibility, but definitely
> there, so I'm sticking with ps and for that I have a question. There've been
Aha, good point. Hadn't thought of that one. Still, the kill -0 is,
strictly speaking, unnecessary; you could do the following:
source .sshenv file of your choice
try to ssh-add
if ssh-add fails, then run ssh-agent, generating a new .sshenv file,
and try ssh-add again
Cheers,
Waider.
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