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Hi,

How can I get a list of all the running processes, in C?
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Short answer, depends on platform and a bunch of other things.

The full, unadorned ugly truth is the source for ps(1) for your computer.

Linux: procps - Home Page
FreeBSD (some version): http://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/os/FreeBSD.../bin/ps/ps.c,v
(sorry, that's the raw CVS file, but you can cope)
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really? no cross-unix way to do it? I thought it was pretty fundamental...

Thanx anyway.
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Linux is not Unix. I guess the kvm_* stuff in BSD is pretty much portable to other "real" Unices.
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You can use the popen function to get the output of the ps command.

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era,

whats "kvm_*" stuff?
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Hmm, you didn't look at the code? It's the FreeBSD link up there; click click.
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