How can I get the PID of a service called abc using C++ on Linux without using a system call? I would appreciate any examples that you care to offer.
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How can I get the PID of a service called abc using C++ on Linux without using a system call? I would appreciate any examples that you care to offer.
Google has this covered 🙂
http://programming-in-linux.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-process-id-by-name-in-c.html
Although it does use sysctl, which is a system call!
It’s C but should work just as well in C++