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-rw-r--r--source3/lib/messages.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/messages.c b/source3/lib/messages.c
index 0e2dfeffd6..0f3638ada2 100644
--- a/source3/lib/messages.c
+++ b/source3/lib/messages.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ BOOL message_send_pid(pid_t pid, int msg_type, void *buf, size_t len, BOOL dupli
* and deleting again if the target is not present. JRA.
*/
- if (kill(pid, 0) == -1) {
+ if (!process_exists(pid)) {
DEBUG(2,("message_send_pid: pid %d doesn't exist\n", (int)pid));
return False;
}