From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Detecting a running process in Elisp Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:58:15 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87k3kd2r88.fsf@informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374858024 25558 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 17:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:00:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 26 19:00:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2lNT-0006jw-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2lNT-00022U-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:00:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net DoZr2NkeS/OvenY4jdZWSwZDKrVJj6v1Mc8Mfnz35riW7NzYBA Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZjU5OWQ4NDk2Y2Y2Yzc4YTFlNmRlMzA1NDg2NmVhMTdkZDIzY2MzOQ== sha1:URs4SePYkrjtw9P28rlR+Ke9yaw= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200190 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92456 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. And what is the function to lock the system so that the list of PIDs returned by list-system-processes is consistent with the actual processes in the system when you call process-attributes on them? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}. You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin