Re: What Is Better than ps (want program name etc)

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/22/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:49:29 -0500

In article <1106407243.414482.197910@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can get a lot of useful information about a pid if I use "ps", pipe
> the info to a file, and read the file, but is there a better way?
> Actually, what I want to do is use the "system" instruction within
> C/C++ to get this data. I think, the problem in using the ps system
> pair of instructions is I'm dependent on the operating system speed.

man popen 

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