Get the Path of the calling program

[vietnam97]

I have a driver.exe that calls a process.exe, and both reside in different servers. When process.exe starts, is there a way to determine the path of driver.exe without having driver.exe pass any parameters (e.g. the path name)?

Thanks,
Bao

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

Ummm.....I assume your process.exe is an activeX Exe. Not sure what good the path for driver.exe will do you....yea its run from "c:\blah\driver.exe" but what machine is that on? Also driver.exe doesn't launch process.exe You should read up on how DCOM works as I'm not going into a lengthy description of it.

 

[vietnam97]

Well, we created the two applications, and they were both standard exe. I made up the name just to drive the point. The actual names are: PlanInstall.exe which acts as a driver program, and TextFileGen.exe which is called by PlanInstall.exe. I just want to know the path of PlanInstall.exe so TextFileGen.exe could do some processing internally. I could have PlanInstall passing the path over and have my child program check for it using command() function, but it would require a change in the parent program and I don't want to do that.

Thanks,
Bao

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

Ah you are out of luck. There are no ties between programs in windows. App A that executes App B does not provide any type of link. If App A wants to sit and wait for B to finish it would have to poll the system. Passing the data is your best option as I see it.