Linux c gets an example of the process name and execution path of the current process

  • 2020-04-02 01:13:52
  • OfStack


[sam@hzhsan test]$ more test_processname.cpp 
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
size_t get_executable_path( char* processdir,char* processname, size_t len)
{
        char* path_end;
        if(readlink("/proc/self/exe", processdir,len) <=0)
                return -1;
        path_end = strrchr(processdir,  '/');
        if(path_end == NULL)
                return -1;
        ++path_end;
        strcpy(processname, path_end);
        *path_end = '0';
        return (size_t)(path_end - processdir);
}
int main()
{
        char path[PATH_MAX];
        char processname[1024];
        get_executable_path(path, processname, sizeof(path));
        printf("directory:%snprocessname:%sn",path,processname);
}
[sam@hzhsan test]$ 


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