Michael Schnell wrote: >IMHO its easier and more straight forward to do the functionality of "pidof" directly in pascal code:
>- do a loop with a findnext() to handle all directories within "/proc" >- in each of them test if a file "cmdline" exists >- read cmdline in a staring >- if this denotes the process you mean to access the directory name is the PID All depending on what was the purpose. I thought the goal was to find all processes owned by a specific user, but have now leaned this was not the case. Using the /proc file system eliminate the need for a call to the underlying OS which is good. /Kaj _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
