How to kill process in c++, knowing only part of its name
You don't have to open a shell to kill a process. Just use the "kill" function:
#include <sys/types.h>#include <signal.h>int kill(pid_t pid, int sig);http://linux.die.net/man/2/kill
To find a process to kill read the following directory:
/proc/####/cmdline
Where #### is the number of any running process id. So the code roughly would be to read the /proc directory and list out all the numerical directories, these are the current running processes, and you find the name of the command that spawned that process in the "cmdline" file in that directory. You can then use a regular expression, or a string comparison to identify processes to kill.
This should just work assuming filename isn't too much exotic or contains a regular expression pattern:
string s="pkill -9 -f "+filename";system(s.c_str());As a side note, -9 is a last resort signal, not something you should start with. I would thus recommend the less brutal:
string s="pkill -f "+filename"+";sleep 2; pkill -9 -f "+filename;system(s.c_str());