-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:43:44PM +0530, Prasad Joshi wrote: > I have given an assignment to find out the pid of the process from its's > name. I am not supposed to use proc filesystem as well as ps output. Impossible. The proc filesystem is the only way to figure out information about other processes. > I am > supposed to write a USER SPACE C program input to it will be a program name > string, say bash, and then it should print corresponding PID. And what is supposed to happen when there are several bash processes? > The next part of the assignment is to find the PPID of a given process and > then print it's tree till init process. The pstree program already does what you want, no need to reinvent the wheel. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF9YR+/PlVHJtIto0RAhR3AJ9pHEJkKvgbqE9svxnPRcb8jPba6wCfWAD6 z2cgCAPJ3hMiYgcPK8IvMNE= =V+El -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
