grx0736@uoft02.utoledo.edu (04/25/91)
unix gurus, i would like to get pid of a running process without using "ps". I know the name of the running process. I intend to this thru' a C program (without giving a "system" call and running shell script in it) which could use some library functions to get information about the pid of a running process. the system i am working on is Sun386i with SunOS 4.0.2 I believe kvm_open, kvm_nextproc etc. are the library functions to be used to get such information. Don't know how to use these functions though. In short, i am looking for something like get_process_id("process_name"); any info. would be highly appreciated. sunil kulkarni