Very Computer

Is there a C system call which can be called in a C program and
used to check whether a process is running? I want to be able
to query the processes running on the system by the name of the
process. I want something similar to "ps".

Thanks in advance.

Jerry Lee

 jlee> Is there a C system call which can be called in a C program and
 jlee> used to check whether a process is running?

No.

 jlee> I want to be able to query the processes running on the system
 jlee> by the name of the process. I want something similar to "ps".

Use ps (see example in FAQ, which also contains three examples of how
to do it *without* using ps, pointing out the total non-portability of
such code).

--
Andrew.

comp.unix.programmer FAQ: see <URL: http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/>
                           or <URL: http://www.whitefang.com/unix/>

I Think that the easiest way to do this is to use popen to call ps,
and then parse the output. That should also be more portable than
traversing kernel datastructures, /proc files and such.

        / Johan

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