Re: Is this program open?
Re: Is this program open?
- Subject: Re: Is this program open?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:01:43 -0700
I'd much rather use the Carbon Process Manager then shell out to a
command-line tool. That sort of thing gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Then again, it seems like you need to have your "runs-as-root" bit
set to get all the info; I looked at Activity Monitor and found it
relies on a helper tool "pmTool". It has the "run-as-root" bit set
and uses apparently-undocumented Mach calls. Gah. I didn't expect
this to be hard :) Maybe I don't have a choice?
On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:56 AM, I. Savant wrote:
You could always experiment with NSTask, running the "ps"
command ... option "w" gives you the full path, I believe. "-auxw"
will give you all processes, including their paths.
--
I.S.
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:46 PM, John Stiles wrote:
On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Tom Harrington wrote:
On 4/13/06, John Stiles <email@hidden> wrote:
Given a path (or FSRef/NSURL/whatever) to an application's
executable:
/Volumes/MyHD/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
I want to check to see if this executable is running, hopefully
in a
semi-lightweight way (I may be doing this several times for
different
apps). It would be cool if the same technique worked for command-
line
tools too, but that's not a strict requirement.
Is there a way to accomplish this, using either Cocoa, Carbon or
lower-level Posix calls? (Technically, Posix would be a little
better
fit for us, since we could avoid forking the code. Either way is
fine, though.)
I think you want to look at [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]
launchedApplications]. Then scan the resulting dictionaries for
your
path-- in the NSApplicationPath key.
I'm sure it's possible in Carbon, but that's the obvious Cocoa
starting point.
I experimented with -launchedApplications in the past, but it had
a lot of limitations—it only displayed apps that are end-user
visible. Things like faceless apps and command line tools weren't
included.
What does Activity Monitor use? It can even see other users' apps.
That would be ideal for me.
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