At first this sounded easier than I thought, or maybe I thought I know C. Anyway, is there anyway
I can get the name of the process that I am executing without using argv ??

Thanks in advance.

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argv[0] is the standard and therefore portable way, why do you not want to
use it?

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Not really a C question.  Try a group related to your operating system. This
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Claude.

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Sorry, I guess I didn't make my question very clear. I'll try again:

    I'm developing an API, where one of its many functions it has to do is to
    get the name of the process or application that is calling this API, and
    storing the process name into a flat file. Of course the easiest way is to
    design the API such that one of its parameters is the process name which
    can easily be obtained from argv[0].

    So my question is, is there any other way of retrieving the process name
    other than from using argv[0]? Thanks again.

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    There's no portable way to do it, but there may well be system-
    specific methods. For example, on a UNIX system you may be able to
    search the output of a "ps" command for a line containing your
    program's process ID.

    So you might like to try a newsgroup that's specific to your
    system to get any magic code that you need.

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