rust-pstree/pstree.rs
Paul Osborne 76204e72df pstree: start to flesh out some basic functionality
Right now, this project is primarily a way to learn rust.  If things
start coming together, there does seem to be some interest in a
library filling the same niche for Rust as psutil does for Python.

For now, however, the goal is to write a simple pstree visualization.
2014-10-09 02:42:29 -05:00

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// 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/<pid>, 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;
use std::collections::hashmap::HashMap;
fn process_status_file(status_path: &Path) {
let mut status_file = BufferedReader::new(File::open(status_path));
let mut status_data = HashMap::new();
for line in status_file.lines() {
let linetext = match line {
Err(why) => fail!("{}", why.desc),
Ok(l) => l
};
let parts: Vec<&str> = linetext.as_slice().splitn(2, ':').collect();
if parts.len() == 2 {
let key = parts[0].trim();
let value = parts[1].trim();
status_data.insert(key.to_string(), value.to_string());
};
}
let name_key = &("Name".to_string());
let pid_key = &("Pid".to_string());
let ppid_key = &("PPid".to_string());
if status_data.contains_key(name_key) &&
status_data.contains_key(pid_key) &&
status_data.contains_key(ppid_key) {
println!("{}#{} -> {}",
status_data.get(name_key),
status_data.get(pid_key),
status_data.get(ppid_key));
}
}
fn dump_process_info() {
let proc_directory = Path::new("/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() {
if entry.is_dir() {
let status_path = entry.join("status");
if status_path.exists() {
process_status_file(&status_path);
}
}
}
}
fn main() {
dump_process_info();
}