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Old 04-24-2006
How to read task_struct process structure of Linux
Hi,

I want to read the task_struct structure in Linux in order to get the names & pids of all processes.

How can this be done??

Thanks in adv,
molu
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Old 04-24-2006
The /proc directory has a kernel-maintained directory for each user - the name of the directory is the pid of the process.

Each process has its own task_struct. /proc is much easier because you don't have to write kernel-mode code.

What are you trying to do?
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Old 04-24-2006
Looks like the user bumped up this post. The original is here - How to get process name from process id in all Unix platforms?

Moderators, please do the needful.

See if this old thread helps at all - C Libraries??
Last edited by vino; 04-24-2006 at 11:07 AM..
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Old 04-26-2006
I want to read process related information for a specific process, i.e the start time of process, name, pid.

i had found for_each_task() macro on Linux, but the code did not compile with thatSmilie do i need to include any specific file?
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Old 04-26-2006
This link should help - http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/proc
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