s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Michael Petch:
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:23, Evan Brown wrote:
I need to get a processs ID for any program from within a program. Any C
coders out there that can send me a code snippet or point me in the
right direction.
unless I misunderstood the question, and this was linux - try:
getpid()
Unfortunately, that only gets the pid of the current process. Evan
wants the pid of "... any program from within a program." I think the
only solution is something like "system( "/bin/pidof program_name"
);", and good luck if there's more than one instance of it running.
If it's a well behaving program, you might be able to rely on it
writing its PID to a lockfile, then you'd just have to parse/interpret
its lockfile filename/contents.
Thanx guys, I'll try that out. We're making a little piece of custom
software and most of our time is spent in windows so we arn't as savy
on Linux yet.
Evan
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