This is work in progress

libpid: The portable process identification library

Need a portable way to get a process' id? By name? execution path? Window name? libpid to the rescue!

Works for Windows and macOS, Linux to follow.

install

git clone https://github.com/a3f/libpid.git && cd libpid
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make install

But what use is a portably obtained pid, you might ask?

• You can print it!
• You can compare for equality
• You can use it in cross platform code (See lade for an example)
• Eventually, there will be also basic support for inter-process signals, waiting on process state change and creating pid files