Parsing enviroment variables of a process at a BSD-like operating system

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By the way, what method does xfdashboard use to get the previews when xfwm4 is running?



> On 5 Jul 2015, at 20:36, Stephan Haller <nomad at froevel.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Devs,
> 
> I know you as being sensitive that all Xfce related applications are
> running well also at BSD-like operating systems. That's why I ask you
> for help.
> 
> I'm the author of xfdashboard. I just implemented an application tracker
> which tries to determine which applications are running and marking the
> corresponding icon in the favourites.
> 
> To archive it xfdashboard listens to newly opened windows, gets its
> process id and parses the enviroment variable set of the process
> at /proc/<<PID>>/environ. If it contains all needed environment
> variables and if their values are valid, then an application is
> considered to be running and marked. It is ok that this
> file /proc/<<PID>>/environ only contains the environment variables and
> name at the time the process was spawned. I do not need to know if they
> changed in the meantime.
> 
> I know BSD is working a different way but I have no idea at all how BSD
> is working in real. So how can get this enviroment variable set under
> BSD? I really would like to use the algorithm at BSD as well because it
> is the best way I found.
> 
> I hope you can help me.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan
> 
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