On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:07:46PM -0400, Jerry Geis alleged: > I have a C program on centos. When I call system("some_program &"); > how do I get the PID of the some_program? > > I cant just list processes as there might be more than one some_program > active. > I need to know the one that I just started.
You don't. At least not by using system(). Use fork() and exec() and you will have the child pid.
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