How to print name of file open by some process (PID) in window? Or All Processes (PID) currently open a file.
Process Explorer is a utility works for same. But how does it work not mentioned?
Any /proc filesystem kind of thing present in windows?
Can we read any Window's Registry?
I wants to write a programming code And I rarely work on windows.
Got two solutions in Python:
1. import psutil
2. import win32api, win32con, win32process
But it is still a question to me!
1. How does these libraries works?
2. Any register, memory or virtual file system keeps this information?
If its possible in window, Why this information not present in TasK-Manager?
To see the open files for a process, select a process from the list, select the View->Lower Panel View->Handles menu option. All of the handles of type "File" are the open files. Also, a great way to find which application has a file open is by using the Find->Handle or DLL menu option.
Here is the platform independent solution in python.
import psutil
p = psutil.Process(os.getpid()) # or PID of process
p.open_files()
So i refer you psutil package it has too good functions for getting information on running processes
Here's a way to get a filename from pid using the Win32 API:
import win32api, win32con, win32process
handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, False, pid) #get handle for the pid
filename = win32process.GetModuleFileNameEx(handle, 0) #get exe path & filename for handle
This works on windows only (obviously).
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