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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:37:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txjhz60m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c567bb99-0fe1-49c4-878f-bab1ce3eea40@googlegroups.com>

> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
> From: gentsquash@gmail.com
> 
> I have a process "ScidvsMac" which I'd like to detect in
> Elisp.  I'm currently using
> 
>     (search "ScidvsMac" (shell-command-to-string "ps -A"))
> 
> but is there something cleaner?

There's list-system-processes to list all of the processes, and
process-attributes to examine their attributes, including name,
command line, etc.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 15:26 Detecting a running process in Elisp gentsquash
2013-07-26 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-26 15:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 15:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <<83siz1z58a.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 16:17     ` Drew Adams
2013-07-26 18:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <<83mwp9yx5f.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 18:54         ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.1854.1374853118.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 16:58   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-26 18:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1870.1374863596.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-26 20:57       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-27  7:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-26 23:18 ` gentsquash
2013-07-26 23:57   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-27  8:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-27  9:07   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-27 10:20   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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