[Bug 1110] excessive workload in pmdaroot for --container clients

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Comment # 2 on bug 1110 from Frank Ch. Eigler

> The PMDAs need to ascertain whether the container is running at all,
> somehow, and whether it has restarted and is running with a different
> PID since last fetch. 

They could cache the PIDs, and send a   kill($pid,0)   to check for liveness. 
If worried about PID wraparund/reuse, throw away the cached PIDs periodically.

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