• Bauss (8/8) Jan 05 2016 Looking at std.process I could not see a standard way of
• Bauss (2/2) Jan 05 2016 Oh yeah I forgot to notice that by name would be preferred. Not
• ZombineDev (40/42) Jan 05 2016 I have adapted the answer on Stackoverflow [1] for D:

Bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

Looking at std.process I could not see a standard way of 
retrieving a process.

Is there any and if not are the functions available for just 
windows somehow?

I'm sure if there's no standard way I'd need to call the win api 
so if anyone could tell me which ones and/or the declarations if 
that's the case.

I really only need a windows solution.

Bauss <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

Oh yeah I forgot to notice that by name would be preferred. Not 
title, but name.

ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:

On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:10:28 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 Oh yeah I forgot to notice that by name would be preferred. Not 
 title, but name.

I have adapted the answer on Stackoverflow [1] for D:

// These Windows headers require DMD >= v2.070
import core.sys.windows.winnt : PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, 
PROCESS_VM_READ;
import core.sys.windows.winbase : OpenProcess, GetCurrentProcess;
import core.sys.windows.psapi : GetProcessImageFileNameW, 
GetModuleFileNameEx;

import std.stdio : writeln;

void main()
{
     // 1) Get a handle to the process

     // 1.1) Example - get current process:
     auto processHandle = GetCurrentProcess();

     // 1.2) Example - get process with id 8036:
     // auto processHandle = OpenProcess(
     //     PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ,
     //     FALSE,
     //     8036 /* This is the PID, you can find one from windows 
task manager */
     // );

     // 2) Allocate a buffer for the name
     wchar[2048] name;

     // 3.1) Call GetProcessImageFileNameW
     uint bytesWritten = GetProcessImageFileNameW(processHandle, 
name.ptr, name.length);

     // 3.2) or call  or GetModuleFileNameEx
     //uint bytesWritten = GetModuleFileNameEx(processHandle, 
null, name.ptr, name.length);

     assert (bytesWritten > 0, "Error: GetProcessImageFileName() 
wrote zero bytes!");

     writeln(name);
}

Please note that this is Windows only and you need to use DMD 
2.070 [2] or newer.
I'm not on Windows so I can't test it now, but this should be the 
basic idea.

[1]: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4570174/how-to-get-the-process-name-in-c/4570225
[2]: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/n6bsnt$iuc$1 digitalmars.com