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From: wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl (Wietse Z. Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pid from process name
Keywords: pid
Message-ID: <320@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: 15 Jul 89 22:09:09 GMT
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blum@drutx.ATT.COM (Mark Blumhardt) writes:

>Given a process name, how can I find its process id?   It just isn't
>obvious to me, other than a system call to grep thru the output of ps,
>which I don't want to do.

open("/dev/kmem","r") ... :-)