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> How can I get the process_id of a process when I've the=20
> process_name from within a C program? Also can the command

You could look at the way its done in
"src/usr.bin/killall/killall.c", or read the manual page
for kvm_getprocs(3).

> kill (pid, SIGCONT) be used to restart a dead daemon process

SIGCONT can only resume existing processes that are stopped.

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