In C++, how to get the path to a service in Linux?

Question

Given the name of a service or daemon , is there some way by which I can get the location of that service from a C++ program in Linux ? I hope, one way is to search the proc filesystem using it pid . Does there exist some Linux functions for this?

Thank You

edit: To be more specific I am working on Linux equivalent code for this program in Windows.

Answer 1

You can execute the system function and redirect its output to a file. Later on read that file. For example,

system ("which rsyslogd >service.out");

Then in the program, you can read service.out.