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Name

readproctab, freeproctab - read information for all current processes at once

Synopsis

#include <proc/readproc.h> proc_t** readproctab(int " flags ", ... );
void freeproctab(proc_t **" p ");

Description

readproctab reads information on all processes matching the criteria from flags, allocating memory for everything as needed. It returns a NULL-terminated list of proc_t pointers. For more information on the arguments of readproctab ,see openproc(3). freeproctab frees all memory allocated by readproctab . The proc_t structure is defined in <proc/readproc.h>, please look there for a definition of all fields.

See Also

openproc(3), readproc(3), /proc/ ,/usr/include/proc/readproc.h .

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