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boost: How to find the process id of a process by name?

I need a cross platform way to find a running process by name and get its process id. Then use boost's process library to terminate it.

Boost's process library requires process id to be known(http://www.highscore.de/boost/process/reference/classboost_1_1process_1_1process.html)

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John Zwinck
John Zwinck

Reputation: 249394

I believe there is no such cross-platform facility. The closest I know of is pgrep and that's a program, not a library, and it isn't part of Windows.

On Unix-like systems with procfs, you'll need to scan /proc to match however you want to. I don't know how to do it on Windows, but I'm sure it's possible, and it can't be much worse than what you have to do on *nix.

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