On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:13 AM, John Tapsell <johnf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding integration - for a long time I've been interested in adding > support to System Activity (ctrl+esc thingy). In Windows, the task > manager has a tab for both processes and for services, and you can > switch between the two. So you can right click on a process and jump > to its service, and vice versa. This integration makes a lot of sense > since its often better to stop the service than to just kill the > process. > > I've been somewhat waiting for the fight between upstart and systemd > to be resolved, and also it would be good to have the following DBUS > calls available to non-root users: > > 1) Return a list of currently running / stopped / runnable / etc services > 2) Provide user-friendly information about each service. (Short > description that I can show to the user)
These two are available. > 3) Provide a list of PIDs for a given service I couldn't see this, but maybe I missed it. At least you can get the cgroup, and then you can look in the "procs" file to get a list of pids belonging to the group. > 4) Return the service for a given PID This is available. Cheers, Tom