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Re: pid vs. Process Serial Number
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Re: pid vs. Process Serial Number


  • Subject: Re: pid vs. Process Serial Number
  • From: Spencer Salazar <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:36:46 -0400

yep, after the name (same as on the command line). cron runs everything after the schedule specification and before the next newline as a single command. see man 5 crontab for more details.

spencer

On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Brad Peterson wrote:

Hi,

I didn't realize that was possible.

The code that constructs the cron entry currently
looks like this:

[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"# name: %@\n0@ \"%@\"
&> /dev/null\n",name,schedule,mstr]

Where would I add the parameters? After name?

Thanks!
--- Chris Suter <email@hidden> wrote:

Can't you use a parameter that gets passed in when
run from cron?

On 21/09/2006, at 9:34 PM, Brad Peterson wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to determine if my app was launched by
cron
so that I can automate certain actions which would
otherwise require interaction.

So, I figured I'd use getppid(), convert the
result to
a psn, use that to get the process' name, and then
check for "cron".

But, I always get a -600 when calling
GetProcessForPID().

Has anyone used this successfully? Alternatively,
can
anyone suggest a different approach which might
work
better?

Thanks!  (Code below)

B

Calling code:

	pid_t pid = getppid();
	NSString *strAppName = pidToProcessName(pid);

my conversion method:

NSString *pidToProcessName(pid_t pid){
    OSErr err;
    NSString *processName;
	NSString  *result = [NSString string];
	ProcessSerialNumber psn;
    psn.highLongOfPSN = 0;
    psn.lowLongOfPSN = 0;
	err = GetProcessForPID(pid, &psn);
	if (err == noErr) {
        //Get name as CFString, which is bridged
to
NSString
        CopyProcessName(&psn, (CFStringRef
*)&processName);
        [processName autorelease];
		result = [NSString stringWithString:
processName];
		NSLog(result);
    }
    return result;
}

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