Getting Process List On *nix

[William Annis]

John Abel <john.abel at pa.press.net> writes:

> I am trying to write a script, capable of running on Win32, and *nix,
> which looks for certain processes.  However, I can't seem to find any
> details of how to access of list of running processes under *nix,

        Well, each different flavor of Unix is going to handle this
somewhat differently.  In a lot of recent flavors you have /proc, in
which you'll find a file system representation of processes. 

> without shelling out, something I'm loathe to do.

        In this case, shelling out for the Unix side may actually be
most portable.

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