In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Levan) wrote:
> Regrettably sysctl does not give access to table info in the kernel. Source code and commentary: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1123.html You can get a list of all BSD processes, which includes daemon processes, using the BSD sysctl routine. Code for doing this is shown in Listing 1. When using this code you should note the following. * The returned kinfo_proc structures contain a huge amount of information about the process, including the process ID (in kp_proc.p_pid) and the process name (in kp_proc.p_comm). * As far as BSD is concerned all Classic applications run within a single process. * You do not need any special privileges to make this sysctl; any user can get a list of all processes on the system. * The UNIX Programming FAQ lists a number of alternative ways to do this. Of these, the only approach that works on Mac OS X is exec'ing the ps command line tool. exec'ing ps will require parsing the tool's output and will not use system resources as efficiently as Listing 1. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
