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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-devel] pid's
From:       Mark Deneen <deneen () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-06-07 14:29:36
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Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote:

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>Hi again,
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>   Anyone know how to get the pid of a process running in the system? I have a 
>daemon that the user can run (called lineakd), and I want to check to see if 
>it is running when I start my gui program (klineakconfig), so that I don't 
>end up running multiple instances of it. (or so I can kill it and start one 
>w/ KProcess). Does anyone know how I can get the pid's of such running 
>processes without do a system call to grep through the output of ps ?
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If you can make your daemon write a file that has the pid in it, that 
seems to be the most portable way.  Lots of daemons do this.  (apache, etc)

-M



 
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