Thread: Active process list

Is there any function or system routine which provided me with all the active process running on the machine. I have tried with the piping the ps command and parsing through the output. Is there any functions at all which does that. I am pretty sure there should be some system function which does that.

I am on Linux, GCC.

Thanks a lot

ssharish

Hi map, thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion, you where true that it should getting it from file and of course it is. The problem is, there are all not in just one single file. And perhaps all the process list is getting it from a dozens of folder under /proc. And may be i would me having issues with permission and all is guess.

I think, i need to go with the ps command. What i am trying to do is look for a process and see if its running or not. If running kill that process. I think we could do that through grep command

Code:

ps | grep <process name>

This is what i am doing. Is there any better way of doing this. Any comments

Thank you

ssharish

pkill <processname> should work