Get the PID of a console program

Hi, I know how to get the PID of a program that has a window.. I use EnumWindows() , then GetWindowModuleFileName() then GetWindowThreadProcessId() ...
(I learned it here http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=33237 )

But I cant do it with a program that runs in a dos console right ?

I should create something that returns the PID of a given name.exe program...

Any suggestion ?

cout << GetCurrentProcessId();

thanx, but according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tprocessid.asp this api seems to return the PID of the currend program... my problem is that I have to look for the PID of another program..

For example I create the program pid.exe that prints on video the pid of the process fordy.exe

Taking a snapshot and viewing processes.

Oh...in that case you have a number of options;

1. CreateToolhelp32Snapshot as given by Ken (Old but good on Win 95/98/ME)
2. EnumProcesses (Part of PSAPI - Not available on Win 98/95/ME)
3. WMI - needs Com...so difficult to use in C++

ok great, I quite got it ;)

Another problem now :

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "psapi.h"


void LookforMyProcessAndPID( DWORD processID )
{
    char szProcessName[MAX_PATH] = "<unknown>";
    char processtofind[MAX_PATH] = "svchost.exe";

    // Get a handle to the process.

    HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess( PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION |
                                  PROCESS_VM_READ,
                                  FALSE, processID );

    // Get the process name.

    if (NULL != hProcess )
    {
        HMODULE hMod;
        DWORD cbNeeded;

        if ( EnumProcessModules( hProcess, &hMod, sizeof(hMod),
            &cbNeeded) )
        {
            GetModuleBaseName( hProcess, hMod, szProcessName,
                              sizeof(szProcessName) );
        }
    }

    // Print the process name and identifier.
   
    if (szProcessName == processtofind)
      {
        printf( "%s  (PID: %u)\n", szProcessName, processID );
      }
     
    CloseHandle( hProcess );
}

main( )
{
    // Get the list of process identifiers.

    DWORD aProcesses[1024], cbNeeded, cProcesses;
    unsigned int i;

    if ( !EnumProcesses( aProcesses, sizeof(aProcesses), &cbNeeded ) )
        return;

    // Calculate how many process identifiers were returned.

    cProcesses = cbNeeded / sizeof(DWORD);

    // Print the name and process identifier for each process.

    for ( i = 0; i < cProcesses; i++ )
        LookforMyProcessAndPID( aProcesses[i] );
 
  system("PAUSE");
}

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this code works if I cancel the

Code:

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if (szProcessName == processtofind)

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if I cancel it, I have the list of all process and PID... but I want to add this control...too bad it seems to fail...
It looks for szProcessName and looks if it is equal to processtofind

Code:

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char processtofind[MAX_PATH] = "svchost.exe";

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any suggestion ? I can't figure out why it doesn't work... szProcessName is a char[] and processtofind too.. and szProcessName it is,at least one time in the for cicle in the main, svchost.exe...

oh god ;)
I'm a stupid ;)

I have to do string compare, not " == "

if (!strcmp(szProcessName, processtofind))

now it's perfect ;)