Crate libproc

libproc is a library for getting information about running processes on Mac and Linux.

Not all methods are available on both Operating Systems yet, but more will be made cross-platform over time.

Get information (such as name, path, process info, fd) about running processes by pid, process type, etc.

At the moment these methods have been implemented, most of which have examples in their docs:

Modules

bsd_info

Get information specific to BSD/Darwin on macos BSD specific information - very macos specific

file_info

Get information about a process’s use of different types of file descriptors Information about Files and File Descriptors used by processes

kmesg_buffer

Read messages from the Kernel Message Buffer Get messages from the kernel message buffer

net_info

Get information about a processes use of network, sockets etc. Information about Network usage by a process

pid_rusage

Get information about resource usage of processes Information about Process Resource Usage - added in Mac OS X 10.9

proc_pid

Get information about processes using mainly the pid Get basic information about processes by PID

processes

List processes by type, path or by type and path.

task_info

Get information about a process’s BSD Tasks Information about Tasks - very macos specific

thread_info

Get information about threads within a process Information about Threads running inside processes

work_queue_info

Get information about Work Queues Information about Work Queues - very macos specific