From b14b29601157fafd3d807f9ca651079543de3494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerhard Hoffmann <g.hoffmann@atb-online.eu>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 11:42:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added utility getParentName() (name of parent process)

---
 utils.cpp | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 utils.h   |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils.cpp b/utils.cpp
index 1d3c7de..7640bf3 100644
--- a/utils.cpp
+++ b/utils.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 #include "message_handler.h"
 #include "git/git_client.h"
 
+#include "unistd.h"
+
 #include <QFile>
 #include <QTextStream>
 #include <QDebug>
@@ -169,3 +171,25 @@ bool Utils::sameFilesInDirs(QDir const &dir1, QDir const &dir2,
 
     return true;
 }
+
+
+QString Utils::getParentName() { // get name of parent process
+    QString ppid = QString("/proc/%1/status").arg(getppid());
+    QFile f(ppid);
+    if (f.exists()) {
+        if (f.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text)) {
+            QTextStream in(&f);
+            in.setCodec("UTF-8");
+            while(!in.atEnd()) {
+                // Name:   ATBQT
+                QStringList line = in.readLine().split(':');
+                if (line.size() == 2) {
+                    if (line[0].trimmed() == "Name") {
+                        return line[1].trimmed();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return "";
+}
diff --git a/utils.h b/utils.h
index 7f16616..62f2c38 100644
--- a/utils.h
+++ b/utils.h
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ namespace Utils {
     QString rstrip(QString const &str);
     bool sameFilesInDirs(QDir const &dir1, QDir const &dir2,
                          QStringList const &nameFilters = {"*.json"});
+
+
+    QString getParentName();
 }
 
 #endif // UTILS_H_INCLUDED