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From: kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to find process name in c?
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Date: 16 Jul 90 18:07:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: lyn@carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM (     Lyn Stewart      )

In article <570001@carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM>, lyn@carter (     Lyn Stewart      ) writes:
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>Has anyone got a method for finding out if a process is running short of
>"ps -ef | grep processname" in a pipe.  There must be a better way from
>within a c program.
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If you're looking for some kind of a library function, I haven't seen one.
You could do what ps does and look through the proc table, but its 
probably not worth the programming effort unless you're doing this real
often.

Kishore Seshadri
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