id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
41	we need a function returning the activity of a process	imendez	rcsoto	"Frequently, we run processes with a number of subprocesses, such as football 
probability simulations or model estimates and forecasts.

If one of these processes becomes died, we can´t know it. At this moment, we can 
load in the data base the pid of each process, and kill the process we want to. But 
it's not possible to know if a process is alive or died, in order to relaunch it.

The function could be similar to WinRmtKill:

Real WinRmtProcessAlive(Text ip, Text port, Real pid)

and it could return:
-1 if the remote server is not active or the comunication can´t be established;
 0 if the process does not exist;
 1 if the process has been killed."	enhancement	closed	highest		Math	head	minor	fixed