On 9 Dec 2009, at 00:03, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > Is there any way I can find what's the path of a given process running? A > background process, which cannot be retrieved in [[NSWorkspace > sharedWorkspace] launchedApplications]?
If we're talking about background processes, to get this kind of information you probably need to use sysctl() (or run "ps" in the background and parse its output), however I think you'll find that you can only get the contents of the argv[] array, which can be set to *anything* by your parent process. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the executable will not have moved to a different location on the drive, or been replaced by a new (and potentially different) executable. You might be interested in this (which I found using Google just now) <http://www.nightproductions.net/dsprocessesinfo_m.html> which is fine for displaying the information to the user, but I really wouldn't recommend using or relying on the pathname of your executable, or anyone else's for that matter. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
