Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > He was asking for C code. Well, in C, the easiest way > > is probably to go through the procfs(5) filesystem to > > find the PID and then use the kill(2) system call. This > > isn't portable, though, but I don't think that there is > > a portable way to do it. > > Well if he has control over the application he could make it record it's > pid somewhere as many system programs do, and use that.
Sure, but he was talking about Realplayer. I doubt he has control over that one. :-) Well, okay, he could write a wrapper script that runs the application (Realplayer or whatever) in the background and records the PID somewhere. But that's not always possible. Regards Oliver PS: Please respect the Reply-To header. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
