From kde-devel  Fri Jun 07 20:25:51 2002
From: Mark Deneen <deneen () gmx ! net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 20:25:51 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-devel] pid's
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If I remember correctly, pidof is not always present on all systems.

Philip Scott wrote:

>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 ;)
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>On Friday 07 June 2002 2:29 pm, Mark Deneen wrote:
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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)
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>>-M
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