Dec 25, 2012 at 5:55pm UTC
I was just wondering, how could I get the program that started one of my programs?
Like was it run in cmd? was it run by the OS?
Dec 26, 2012 at 11:14am UTC
I really do not understand what you mean please explain in more detsil . Or Pm me I will be glad to help.
If you mean how to get source code of the cmd I think it is not possible since Microsoft would have obsfucate and put anti-debuggers in place.
Warm regards,
Cyberwarfare
Dec 26, 2012 at 11:23am UTC
Windows has no concepts of parent - child processes, so there is no way to get information regarding what process has spawned your process.
There are some undocumented APIs to show you what processes has opened handles to your process, like Sysinternals Process Monitor probably uses.
Dec 26, 2012 at 1:45pm UTC
OP make it clear what your question is since it is quite difficult for us to understand and answer your question also learn about the windows API that way you know about GUI. I suggest you look in MSDN for the question you want to know.
Warm regards,
Cyberwarfare
Dec 26, 2012 at 7:24pm UTC
Let's say I got a program called main.exe, which must be run directly-meaning running it from any other program should be disabled.
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:07pm UTC
You can make a launcher for your program, which adds something weird to the command line to run your 'main' program. It can be easily 'passed' thru, anyways, but I don't have any other idea ATM.
Dec 26, 2012 at 8:34pm UTC
I've thought of that, I just thought I could find a "cleaner" solution to it.
Dec 27, 2012 at 8:19am UTC
Use an environment variable, set it in your launcher program and automatically will be inherited by your child process.
No other processes in the system will have access to that environment variable. Use a GUID as a value :)
And please don't use CRT setenv() and getenv() for that.
Last edited on Dec 27, 2012 at 8:20am UTC