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From: jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting process status
Keywords: VMUNIX
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.060916.20596@brainiac.mn.org>
Date: 12 Apr 91 06:09:16 GMT
References: <7269@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Sewer of Source Code
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In article <7269@bgsuvax.UUCP> pthonda@bgsuvax.UUCP (Killer B) writes:
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>Hi, I am trying to read the status of all the processes information in the system. 
>I came to know that the file 'vmunix' contains a pointer to a location in file 
>'kmem'.This location has another pointer to the starting of process structures in 
>kmem, which would give me process information. Can anybody tell me how to get the 
>pointer in the file 'vmunix' . Should I use nlist, if so , in what way.
>
>Thanx in advance .
>
>Pratap

Using SunOS, do a 'man -k kvm'.  There are some nice routines for dealing with
the kernel:

kvm_getproc, kvm_nextproc, kvm_setproc (3K) - read system process structures
kvm_read, kvm_write (3K)  copy data to or from a kernel image or running system


Jeff