Re: system call for process information?

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I asked this question on kernel-newbies - no reply, hope to be luckier
> here:-)
> 
> I need to collect some info on processes. One way is to read /proc
> tree. But isn't there a system call (ioctl) for this? And what are those

Occam's Razor.  Why invent new syscall when read() works?

> task[], task_struct, etc. about?

What branch? (2.0, 2.2, 2.4?)
							Cheers,
								Al