// A version of pstree targetting linux written in rust! // // This is based on the following exercise from the excellent // book "The Linux Programming Interface" by Michael Kerridsk. // //---------------------------------------------------------------------- // // Write a program that draws a tree showing the hierarchical // parent-child relationships of all processes on the system, going all // the way back to init. For each process, the program should display // the process ID and the command being executed. The output of the // program should be similar to that produced by pstree(1), although it // does need not to be as sophisticated. The parent of each process on // the system can be found by inspecing the PPid: line of all of the // /proc/PID/status files on the system. Be careful to handle the // possibilty that a process's parent (and thus its /proc/PID directory) // disappears during the scan of all /proc/PID directories. // Implementation Notes // -------------------- // The linux /proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem that provides information // about processes running on a linux system among other things. The /proc // filesystem contains a directory, /proc/, for each running process in // the system. // // Each process directory has a status file with contents including a bunch // of different items, notably the process name and its parent process id (ppid). // And with that information, we can build the process tree. use std::io::fs::PathExtensions; use std::io::fs; use std::io::File; use std::io::BufferedReader; #[deriving(Clone,Show)] struct ProcessRecord { name: String, pid: int, ppid: int } #[deriving(Clone,Show)] struct ProcessTreeNode { record: ProcessRecord, // the node owns the associated record children: Vec, // nodes own their children } #[deriving(Clone,Show)] struct ProcessTree { root: ProcessTreeNode, // tree owns ref to root node } impl ProcessTreeNode { // constructor fn new(record : &ProcessRecord) -> ProcessTreeNode { ProcessTreeNode { record: (*record).clone(), children: Vec::new() } } } // Given a status file path, return a hashmap with the following form: // pid -> ProcessRecord fn get_process_record(status_path: &Path) -> Option { let mut pid : Option = None; let mut ppid : Option = None; let mut name : Option = None; let mut status_file = BufferedReader::new(File::open(status_path)); for line in status_file.lines() { let unwrapped = line.unwrap(); // need a new lifeline let parts : Vec<&str> = unwrapped.as_slice().splitn(2, ':').collect(); if parts.len() == 2 { let key = parts[0].trim(); let value = parts[1].trim(); match key { "Name" => name = Some(value.to_string()), "Pid" => pid = from_str(value), "PPid" => ppid = from_str(value), _ => (), } } } return if pid.is_some() && ppid.is_some() && name.is_some() { Some(ProcessRecord { name: name.unwrap(), pid: pid.unwrap(), ppid: ppid.unwrap() }) } else { None } } // build a simple struct (ProcessRecord) for each process fn get_process_records() -> Vec { let mut records : Vec = Vec::new(); let proc_directory = Path::new("/proc"); // find potential process directories under /proc let proc_directory_contents = match fs::readdir(&proc_directory) { Err(why) => fail!("{}", why.desc), Ok(res) => res }; for entry in proc_directory_contents.iter().filter(|entry| entry.is_dir()) { let status_path = entry.join("status"); if status_path.exists() { match get_process_record(&status_path) { Some(record) => records.push(record), None => (), } } } records } fn populate_node(node : &mut ProcessTreeNode, records: &Vec) { // populate the node by finding its children... recursively let pid = node.record.pid; // avoid binding node as immutable in closure for record in records.iter().filter(|record| record.ppid == pid) { let mut child = ProcessTreeNode::new(record); populate_node(&mut child, records); node.children.push(child); } } fn build_process_tree() -> ProcessTree { let records = get_process_records(); let mut tree = ProcessTree { root : ProcessTreeNode::new( &ProcessRecord { name: "/".to_string(), pid: 0, ppid: -1 }) }; // recursively populate all nodes in the tree starting from root (pid 0) { let root = &mut tree.root; populate_node(root, &records); } tree } fn print_node(node : &ProcessTreeNode, indent_level : int) { // print indentation for _ in range(0, indent_level * 2) { print!(" "); } println!("- {} #{}", node.record.name, node.record.pid); for child in node.children.iter() { print_node(child, indent_level + 1); // recurse } } fn main() { let ptree = build_process_tree(); print_node(&(ptree.root), 0) }