Hello, On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Volker Poplawski wrote:

How do i get the PID of a process by the process-name?

Look at the sourcecode of pidof / pgrep. Basically both programms look through /proc/nnn/{cmdline,exe} and look for matching names. -dnh -- Better visibility is no good if the oncoming traffic crashes into you with its arm across its eyes from the sudden blindness. -- Graham Reed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org

Hello, On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM, David Haller wrote:

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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Volker Poplawski wrote:

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How do i get the PID of a process by the process-name?

Look at the sourcecode of pidof / pgrep. Basically both programms look through /proc/nnn/{cmdline,exe} and look for matching names.

Along those same lines, strace will get you to the answer even faster a lot of times. And you don't have to have the source handy either.

I used 'strace pidof xemacs' for my answer, don't have the sources around ... ;) I use strace, ltrace, ltrace -S quite often. But to reimplement the functionality, it'd probably be better to have a look at the tried and tested implementations in the sources of pidof and/or pgrep and probably use copy and paste, eh? ;) On the other hand, I do quite often also look into sources. -dnh -- In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded. -- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org