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I thought I'd ask before writing a function to trawl through /proc/xxxx/cmdline for all processes.
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Is there a function somewhere that will let me pass it the executable file name and it will return the pid (if its running)?
I thought I'd ask before writing a function to trawl through /proc/xxxx/cmdline for all processes.
What if the same executable is running several times?
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