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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Process ID of a "Stranger"
Keywords: PID, ps , getpid(2)
Message-ID: <13709@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Aug 90 20:51:46 GMT
References: <266@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <266@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu> reiner@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu (Reiner Wilhelms) writes:
-It is rather easy to obtain the process Id of a process via the system
-call getpid(), and of the parent process via getppid().
-However, how can I obtain the process id of a "stranger": some other
-process, running on the same machine, if I just know its name?

Processes do not HAVE names, just PIDs.

I don't know what problem you're trying to solve, but you're going
about it the wrong way.