Added utility getParentName() (name of parent process)

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 "";
+}

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