READPROCTAB(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to READPROCTAB(3) from the Linux Programmer's Manual 💖

It's giving process-info power couple: readproctab, freeproctab — read information for all current processes at once.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

First, include the header:

#include <proc/readproc.h>

proc_t** readproctab(int flags, ... );
void freeproctab(proc_t **p);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

readproctab is the main character here: it reads information on all processes matching the criteria from flags, allocating memory for everything as needed. Then it returns a NULL-terminated list of proc_t pointers. For more information on the arguments of readproctab, see openproc(3).

freeproctab is the cleanup bestie: it 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

🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

Please send bug reports to procps@freelists.org

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