Proc::P...:Process(3)

✨ Proc::P...:Process(3) — Proc::ProcessTable::Process ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation glow-up for Proc::ProcessTable::Process — the Perl process objects page. This is your group-chat briefing, and every accessor, platform note, and literal detail is staying exactly where it belongs. no cap. 💅

💖 NAME 💖

Proc::ProcessTable::Process — Perl process objects. That’s the whole name vibe, and yes, it’s iconic. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

$process->kill(9);
$process->priority(19);
$process->pgrp(500);
$uid = $process->uid;
...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is a stub module to provide OO process attribute access for Proc::ProcessTable. Proc::ProcessTable::Process objects are constructed directly by Proc::ProcessTable; there is no constructor method, only accessors. so if you were looking for some new situation, bestie, that’s not the vibe here — the accessors are the main characters. ✨

💅 METHODS 💅

💀 kill 💀

Sends a signal to the process; just an aesthetic wrapper for perl's kill. Takes the signal (name or number) as an argument. Returns number of processes signalled. 💖

🔥 priority 🔥

Get/set accessor; if called with a numeric argument, attempts to reset the process's priority to that number using perl's setpriority function. Returns the process priority. 🫶

🎀 pgrp 🎀

Same as above for the process group. 💅

🌈 all other methods... 🌈

are simple accessors that retrieve the process attributes for which they are named. Currently supported are:

• uid — UID of process
• gid — GID of process
• euid — effective UID of process (Solaris only)
• egid — effective GID of process (Solaris only)
• pid — process ID
• ppid — parent process ID
• spid — sprod ID (IRIX only)
• pgrp — process group
• sess — session ID
• cpuid — CPU ID of processor running on (IRIX only)
• priority — priority of process
• ttynum — tty number of process
• flags — flags of process
• minflt — minor page faults (Linux only)
• cminflt — child minor page faults (Linux only)
• majflt — major page faults (Linux only)
• cmajflt — child major page faults (Linux only)
• utime — user mode time (1/100s of seconds) (Linux only)
• stime — kernel mode time (Linux only)
• cutime — child utime (Linux only)
• cstime — child stime (Linux only)
• time — user + system time
• ctime — child user + system time
• timensec — user + system nanoseconds part (Solaris only)
• ctimensec — child user + system nanoseconds (Solaris only)
• qtime — cumulative cpu time (IRIX only)
• size — virtual memory size (bytes)
• rss — resident set size (bytes)
• wchan — address of current system call
• fname — file name
• start — start time (seconds since the epoch)
• pctcpu — percent cpu used since process started
• state — state of process
• pctmem — percent memory
• cmndline — full command line of process
• ttydev — path of process's tty
• clname — scheduling class name (IRIX only)

See the README.osname files in the distribution for more up-to-date information. 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

J. Bargsten, D. Urist. absolute legends. 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Proc::ProcessTable, perl(1). go read those too, bestie. 💖

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💖 okay that’s the whole page! Cute little footer note: this is perl v5.42.0, dated 2023-06-22, and the manual entry is Proc::P...:Process(3). Bye bestie, go signal some processes responsibly! 💅✨