Re: how to find a task through name faster?

[Jiri Slaby]

On 07/11/2011 06:52 PM, loody wrote:
> hi all:
> I found a way to find a task I need by name, test,  as below:
> for_each_process(task) {
>     if(strcmp(task->comm, "test")
>         printk(“%s[%d]\n”, task->comm, task->pid);
> }
> 
> But it is time-consuming to do so if I periodically want to know
> whether "test" exist or not.
> is there better way to do so?

It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Maybe process accounting
is what you want?

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js
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