On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:33 +0200, Allen Cronce
[...]I can see that boost::process supports obtaining a process ID. The question is can boost::process use this ID to determine if a given process, which was not launched as a child, is still running?
I assume you refer to Boost.Process 0.4 which has been released recently and is currently heavily discussed on the Boost developer's list. There is a proposal at http://www.highscore.de/boost/gsoc2010/process/appendices.html how to create a snapshot of currently running processes. The function create_snapshot() wasn't finished in time though to ship it with 0.4. There were some more ideas to filter processes returned by create_snapshot() (eg. if you are only interested in processes owned by a certain user). But I think in general this kind of function could help you? You could then either iterate through the processes in the snapshot or filter with the process ID directly? Boris