Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!umd5!umbc3!dipto From: dipto@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Grabbing pid from inside of a C program Message-ID: <998@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Date: 24 May 88 16:09:53 GMT Reply-To: dipto@umbc3.umd.edu (Dipto Chakravarty) Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 14 A quick question: We are attempting to locate an idle daemon process on the system, and subsequently kill it. Which is the best way to do this from inside of a C program. The system under use is IBM's AIX. Kindly send e-mail. Thanks in advance. Dipto . -- dipto@umbc.bitnet ------\ /------ !uunet!umbc3!dipto -------> In-real-life: <------- dipto@umbc3.umd.edu ------/ Dipto Chakravarty \------ CMSC, U.of Md, 21228