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Lucas
Lucas

Reputation: 3715

Check how the application has been launched?

My question is simple - is it possible with the Python to check, which way application has been launched/spawned?

More information:

I got an application something.exe and now I need to check if the something.exe has been launched whether by the user or rather with some third party application running it as a child process.

Is it possible to check?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 452

Answers (2)

avenet
avenet

Reputation: 3043

I tried on Windows using psutil this approach:

import psutil

def get_process_mode(process_name):
    process_mode = None
    plist = psutil.get_process_list()
    for process in plist:
        try:
            if process.name == process_name:
                if process.parent:
                    process_mode = "third party app"
                else:
                    process_mode = "user launched"
                break
        except psutil.AccessDenied:
            print "'%s' Process is not allowing us to check its parent!" % process
    return process_mode

get_process_mode("something.exe")

But it didn't worked good in some cases...

Upvotes: 2

eri
eri

Reputation: 3514

With standard library it is not possible in windows. In Unix-like all processes (excepting init) have a parent.

import os
parent = os.getppid()

You can try to check os.environ. Different methods to run can set slightly different environment or not set any variable.

Also look at psutil. It has many functions for process management.

Upvotes: 2

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