You could always use 'pidof <process>'; I don't know if there's a simple way 
of doing that from within a program without calling the command line utility 
though ;)

On Friday 07 June 2002 2:29 pm, Mark Deneen wrote:
> Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote:
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> >Hi again,
> >
> >   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 ?
>
> 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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