Getting a proccesses ID
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
shalehperry at attbi.com
Fri Sep 6 12:56:35 EDT 2002
On Friday 06 September 2002 09:48, Micah Mayo wrote:
>
> Ah, but os.getpid get's my pid, I need to get another programs, and in
> fact, several other program's pid. :)
>
hence the smiley.
If you wanted to be cool about it you could write a python module which parsed
the various /proc interfaces of BSD, Linux, Solaris and created process
trees/maps/dictionaries from this data. Kind of like writing a generic db
frontend to read the os's backend.
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