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Why is there no supported way to get the command line of another process?

February 23, 2009 Feb 23, 2009 02/23/09

Raymond Chen

Commenter Francisco Moraes wonders whether there is a supported way of getting the command line of another process. Although there are certainly unsupported ways of doing it or ways that work with the assistance of a debugger, there's nothing that is supported for programmatic access to another process's command line, at least nothing ...