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Post subject: how to find the pid of a process by name..
 Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 06:30 PM
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| is there a function that can find the process's id by giving its name? |
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Posted: Mar 14, 2008 - 06:54 PM
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Joined: Nov 05, 2003
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Location: Texas
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| Not exactly. If the application has done a name_attach() you can use name_open, although this actually gets you a CHANNEL id, not a pid. |
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Posted: Mar 15, 2008 - 12:42 AM
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| There may be multiple instances of a program of any given name, how would you know that you have the right one? |
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Posted: Mar 15, 2008 - 02:25 PM
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| You can loop through the entries under /proc. |
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