Process ID of a "Stranger"

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <266 at jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu> reiner at jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu (Reiner Wilhelms) writes:
-It is rather easy to obtain the process Id of a process via the system
-call getpid(), and of the parent process via getppid().
-However, how can I obtain the process id of a "stranger": some other
-process, running on the same machine, if I just know its name?

Processes do not HAVE names, just PIDs.

I don't know what problem you're trying to solve, but you're going
about it the wrong way.