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# 1  
Old 03-30-2008
how to get list of processes
Hi,

How can I get a list of all the running processes, in C?
# 2  
Old 03-30-2008
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)
# 3  
Old 03-30-2008
really? no cross-unix way to do it? I thought it was pretty fundamental...

Thanx anyway.
# 4  
Old 03-30-2008
Linux is not Unix. I guess the kvm_* stuff in BSD is pretty much portable to other "real" Unices.
# 5  
Old 03-30-2008
You can use the popen function to get the output of the ps command.

Regards
# 6  
Old 03-30-2008
era,

whats "kvm_*" stuff?
# 7  
Old 03-31-2008
Hmm, you didn't look at the code? It's the FreeBSD link up there; click click.
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