Re: [ANN] Winapi - a minimal but useful Windows API binding

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 12/06/2011 14.54, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 13.18, KHMan wrote:
> > On 6/12/2011 5:52 PM, steve donovan wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > Add a method path() to return the actual process path in the file
> > > > system. I
> > > > don't know if this is easy to do (maybe not, since autoit doesn't
> > > > have it),
> > > > but it could be possible since Sysinternals' "ProcessExplorer" shows
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > Ah, I see what you mean: the existing get_process_name() method gives
> > > the exe name but not the full path. I will investigate this further.
> >
> > GetModuleFileNameW
>
> Are you sure?
>
>  From [1] it seems that GetModuleFileNameW is just the Unicode version
> of GetModuleFileName. Excerpt from [1] (emphasis mine):
>
> "Retrieves the fully-qualified path for the file that contains the
> specified module. THE MODULE MUST HAVE BEEN LOADED BY THE CURRENT PROCESS."
>
> The current process here is the lua interpreter running the script where
> winapi's get_processes() is called. So this shouldn't be able to return
> the path of an arbitrary process active on the system and whose pid is
> returned by get_processes().
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> -- Lorenzo
>
>
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683197%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
I pushed "send" a bit too early, sorry.


In the same page [1] above, the text continues saying:
"To locate the file for a module that was loaded by another process, use 
the GetModuleFileNameEx function."

Is GetModuleFileNameEx which you meant?

-- Lorenzo