How can I get the process name in C? The same name, which is in /proc/$pid/status. I do not want to parse that file. Is there any programmatic way of doing this?
How can I get the process name in C? The same name, which is
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How can I get the process name in C? The same name, which is in /proc/$pid/status. I do not want to parse that file. Is there any programmatic way of doing this?
It’s either pointed to by the
argv[0]or indeed you can read/proc/self/status. Or you can usegetenv("_"), not sure who sets that and how reliable it is.