Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!vsi1!altos!megadon!clp From: lyns@atc.boeing.com Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: How to find process name in c Message-ID: <2190@megadon.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 90 02:37:42 GMT Organization: Boeing-Commercial-Airplanes Lines: 8 Approved: clp@megadon.UUCP Return-Path: 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. Lynwood A. Stewart Boeing Commercial Airplanes lyns@atc.boeing.com