How to find process name in c?

[Kishore Seshadri]

In article <570001 at carter.BCASDL.BOEING.COM>, lyn at carter (     Lyn Stewart      ) writes:
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>Has anyone got a method for finding out if a process is running short of
>"ps -ef | grep processname" in a pipe.  There must be a better way from
>within a c program.
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If you're looking for some kind of a library function, I haven't seen one.
You could do what ps does and look through the proc table, but its 
probably not worth the programming effort unless you're doing this real
often.

Kishore Seshadri
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