Question

More or less everything is in the title, I am looking for a way to get from a cocoa application, pid_t of the running dock.app.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

If you are running Mac OS X 10.6, then you can give a try to the runningApplications method of NSWorkspace:

NSArray *appList = [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] runningApplications];

It will return an array of NSRunningApplication. Look up for Dock.app and use the processIdentifier property.

You can also take a look at the AppList sample application.