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.Install using standard go get:
$ go get github.com/mitchellh/go-ps
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Want to contribute? Here is a short TODO list of things that aren't implemented for this library that would be nice:
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