Crate procfs

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This crate provides to an interface into the linux procfs filesystem, usually mounted at /proc.

This is a pseudo-filesystem which is available on most every linux system and provides an interface to kernel data structures.

Kernel support

Not all fields/data are available in each kernel. Some fields were added in specific kernel releases, and other fields are only present in certain kernel configuration options are enabled. These are represented as Option fields in this crate.

This crate aims to support all 2.6 kernels (and newer). WSL2 is also supported.

Documentation

In almost all cases, the documentation is taken from the proc.5 manual page. This means that sometimes the style of writing is not very “rusty”, or may do things like reference related files (instead of referencing related structs). Contributions to improve this are welcome.

Panicing

While previous versions of the library could panic, this current version aims to be panic-free in a many situations as possible. Whenever the procfs crate encounters a bug in its own parsing code, it will return an InternalError error. This should be considered a bug and should be reported. If you encounter a panic, please report that as well.

Cargo features

The following cargo features are available:

  • chrono – Default. Optional. This feature enables a few methods that return values as DateTime objects.
  • flate2 – Default. Optional. This feature enables parsing gzip compressed /proc/config.gz file via the procfs::kernel_config method.
  • backtrace – Optional. This feature lets you get a stack trace whenever an InternalError is raised.

Examples

Examples can be found in the various modules shown below, or in the examples folder of the code repository.

Re-exports

pub use crate::sys::kernel::BuildInfo as KernelBuildInfo;
pub use crate::sys::kernel::Type as KernelType;
pub use crate::sys::kernel::Version as KernelVersion;

Modules

Functions related to the in-kernel key management and retention facility
Information about the networking layer.
Functions and structs related to process information
Sysctl is a means of configuring certain aspects of the kernel at run-time, and the /proc/sys/ directory is there so that you don’t even need special tools to do it!

Structs

Container group controller information.
Represents the data from /proc/cpuinfo.
CPU pressure information
The amount of time, measured in ticks, the CPU has been in specific states
Disk IO stat information
An internal error in the procfs crate
IO pressure information
Details about a loaded kernel module
Kernel/system statistics, from /proc/stat
Load average figures.
Details about an individual file lock
This struct reports statistics about memory usage on the system, based on the /proc/meminfo file.
Memory pressure information
Pressure stall information for either CPU, memory, or IO.
Information about a process cgroup
A shared memory segment parsed from /proc/sysvipc/shm Relation with [crate::process::process::MMapPath::Vsys]
The uptime of the system, based on the /proc/uptime file.

Enums

Possible values for a kernel config option
The kind of a lock (read or write)
The mode of a lock (advisory or mandatory)
The type of a file lock
The various error conditions in the procfs crate.

Functions

The boot time of the system, as a DateTime object.
The boottime of the system, in seconds since the epoch
Information about the cgroup controllers that are compiled into the kernel
Get a list of the arguments passed to the Linux kernel at boot time
Get disk IO stat info from /proc/diskstats
Returns a configuration options used to build the currently running kernel
Get a list of current file locks and leases
Get a list of loaded kernel modules
Memory page size, in bytes.
Return the number of ticks per second.
Get various virtual memory statistics

Type Definitions

The main error type for the procfs crate.