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Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name?
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Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name?


  • Subject: Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name?
  • From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:34:50 +0100

On 18/05/06, Michael Ash <email@hidden> wrote:
On 5/18/06, John Stiles <email@hidden> wrote:
> You can do anything you want, except find the darn thing on the hard
> disk. Yes, some of us actually want the current path to the running
> app, even if it might move again in the future. In OS 9 you could
> move or rename apps just fine while they were running and still find
> them. (You couldn't delete them, but I think that was by design—let's
> face it, how many of us are writing apps which will keep on running
> if the whole bundle suddenly got rm -rf'ed? This is just a basic way
> of protecting the user.)

GetProcessBundleLocation() would seem to do exactly what you want.
It's marked as available in 10.0 and up.

That doesn't work if the process doesn't have a PSN.

-- Finlay
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References: 
 >How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: Scott Mitchell <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: John Stiles <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find out if a process is running if I have the process Name? (From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>)

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