How do I get the name of a process by its pid? 1

[AliFessi]

Hi,

My name is Ali. I am writing a dll with Visual C++ (it 's not an MFC' dll). I want to recognize which process is using the dll. With _getpid () I could get the process id. And now, how can I get the name of the process?!

Thanks !

 

[IonelBurtan]

The API function GetStartupInfo retrieves data about the curent process in a LPSTARTUPINFO structure. One of its member lpTitle is the main window caption/process name.

VOID GetStartupInfo(
LPSTARTUPINFO lpStartupInfo // startup information
);

Hope this helps, s-)

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[tchouch]

There are no easy ways to do it, if You need name of another Process (with ID != GetCurrentProcessId()). You must enum all Processes in System and compare founded IDs with Your ID. For that You need:
1) Windows 95/98/2000 - use CreateToolhelp32Snapshot() and another Functions of this Group (search help of Visual Studio for source sample).
2)Windows NT- use Functions of PSAPI.DLL (EnumProcesses() and it's callback - You can find source in search.microsoft.com).

Regards.