Hello all, i am in need of developing an application (writing a C/c++ code ) to Run an application(say for example a vlc player or any as such) from the Code and get its process ID and perform certain manipulation and then kill it ..... i want the application to run both in windows and Linux too.. Anyone here suggest me how to do this.... i heard like "system" command would be of help i have been googling for good tutorials but no help.. Anyone here guide me... any help is highly appreciated thanks and regards
This bit will be difficult; these operations are OS-specific. So you will need (a) a toolkit that provides platform-independent access to these functions or (b) write different programs for eac.
For Windows consider using CreateProcess(). For Linux - fork() and then execve(). They all are documented well, look msdn and man-pages.
