On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:05:02 +0100, Steven Schveighoffer
<schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:38:58 -0400, Dsmith <dsm...@nomail.com> wrote:
In the core.thread library, there is a method isRunning() which takes a
thread.
To make code more portable, rather than use a system call or getenv(),
how might
isRunning() be adapted to check if a program is running?
Ideally: isrunning(program_name);
It cannot. isRunning checks a local boolean, it does not do any OS
queries.
Now, once you have a reference to a running process, I'd say it's
probably possible to add isRunning methods that call on the OS
functions. Given a process ID, getting information about the process is
pretty straightforward. I think this might be a good addition to
std.process if it's not already in there.
It's just the getting of the pid based on the name is not
straightforward.
.. on unix systems. :p
In the past I've had to parse "ps" output on various platforms. On
Windows it's a great deal easier.
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