Reading /proc/<PID>/psinfo on solaris

[Paul Lemmens]

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to read /proc/<pid>/psinfo on SunOS systems. On linux these
files are all clear text, on sunos apparently not. So I probably have to
read them into struct psinfo_t from <sys/procfs.h>, but how do I do that?
I don't seem to find a standard call from a lib. Do I read the vars in
psinfo_t one by one, until I find the one I need? Do I need scanf()? (if
so how?)

TIA!

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[Steve Coleman]

Paul Lemmens wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to read /proc/<pid>/psinfo on SunOS systems. On linux these
> files are all clear text, on sunos apparently not. So I probably have to
> read them into struct psinfo_t from <sys/procfs.h>, but how do I do that?
> I don't seem to find a standard call from a lib. Do I read the vars in
> psinfo_t one by one, until I find the one I need? Do I need scanf()? (if
> so how?)

open the file.
allocate a psinfo_t struct.
read sizeof(psinfo_t) bytes into the struct.
deference the fields that you are interested in.

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[Sudheer Kurichiyath]

Hi Paul,

Try to get qps source from Solaris site. That contains the info you required.

Regards

Sudheer

Paul Lemmens wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to read /proc/<pid>/psinfo on SunOS systems. On linux these
> files are all clear text, on sunos apparently not. So I probably have to
> read them into struct psinfo_t from <sys/procfs.h>, but how do I do that?
> I don't seem to find a standard call from a lib. Do I read the vars in
> psinfo_t one by one, until I find the one I need? Do I need scanf()? (if
> so how?)
>