go-ps is a library for Go that implements OS-specific APIs to list and
manipulate processes in a platform-safe way. The library can find and
list processes on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
If you're new to Go, this library has a good amount of advanced Go educational
value as well. It uses some advanced features of Go: build tags, accessing
DLL methods for Windows, cgo for Darwin, etc.
How it works:
Darwin uses the sysctl syscall to retrieve the process table.
Unix uses the procfs at /proc to inspect the process tree.
Windows uses the Windows API, and methods such as
CreateToolhelp32Snapshot to get a point-in-time snapshot of
the process table.
Installation
Install using standard go get:
$ go get github.com/mitchellh/go-ps
...
TODO
Want to contribute? Here is a short TODO list of things that aren't
implemented for this library that would be nice:
p3ls/go-ps
Process List Library for Go
go-ps is a library for Go that implements OS-specific APIs to list and manipulate processes in a platform-safe way. The library can find and list processes on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
If you're new to Go, this library has a good amount of advanced Go educational value as well. It uses some advanced features of Go: build tags, accessing DLL methods for Windows, cgo for Darwin, etc.
How it works:
sysctl
syscall to retrieve the process table./proc
to inspect the process tree.CreateToolhelp32Snapshot
to get a point-in-time snapshot of the process table.Installation
Install using standard
go get
:TODO
Want to contribute? Here is a short TODO list of things that aren't implemented for this library that would be nice: