Module process 

Cross-platform process abstraction

Provides a unified interface for discovering and managing processes across macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Structs

Process

Represents a system process with relevant information

RawText

The text of a process that name matching reads, as the OS gave it: control characters unescaped, unlike the fields a process is displayed from

Enums

ProcessStatus

Process status

Functions

escape_control

Make text from other processes safe to print: control characters become visible escapes, as lsof and ps do. Names, command lines and paths are set by whoever runs a process, and printed raw an ESC sequence could recolour, retitle or rewrite the terminal of whoever runs proc (and a newline would split a table row). Applied where process data is read, so every view and the JSON show the same text.

is_thread

On Linux, sysinfo lists every thread of a process as an entry of its own, with the process’s command line, so a node server shows up a dozen times. Process listings skip them; thread_kind is always None elsewhere.

parse_signal_name

Parse a signal name to a nix Signal (Unix only)