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Top Forums Programming Help with task daemon Post 302305407 by james2432 on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 09:16:40 PM
Old 04-08-2009
Code:
while(1){ 
            int rc;
            rc=system("ps ux | awk '/mplayer/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'"); 
          rc = WEXITSTATUS(rc); /* Check if mplayer is running */
            printf("I was here pid: %s\n",rc);

the output is always : I was here pid: (null)

*edit*
I was trying to fallow the example here:
http://joekuan.wordpress.com/2009/02...he-ps-command/
Last edited by james2432; 04-08-2009 at 11:48 PM..
 

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udisks-daemon

UDISKS-DAEMON(8)						   udisks-daemon						  UDISKS-DAEMON(8)

NAME

       udisks-daemon - udisks Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       udisks-daemon [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       udisks-daemon provides the org.freedesktop.UDisks service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start
       this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application calls into the org.freedesktop.UDisks service.

       See the udisks(7) man page for information on how to customize how udisks-daemon works.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Show help options.

AUTHOR

       Written by David Zeuthen david@fubar.dk with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at
       https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks.

SEE ALSO

       udisks(7), udisks(1), udisks-tcp-bridge(1), dbus-daemon(1)

udisks								    April 2008							  UDISKS-DAEMON(8)
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