Accessing processlist to determine, if a process is running / struct kinfo_proc

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:56:54 +0200, Chris wrote:
> When compiling, clang barfs:
> 
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> clang -c -Wall psprobe-BSD.c
> psprobe-BSD.c:65:48: error: subscript of pointer to incomplete type 'struct kinfo_proc'
>                 snprintf(CommandString, 64, "%s: ", processes[i].p_comm);
>                                                     ~~~~~~~~~^
> /usr/include/kvm.h:56:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct kinfo_proc'
> struct kinfo_proc;
>        ^
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> 
> What I don't understand is: why isn't struct kinfo_proc completely 
> defined there? I couldn't find it's definition below /usr/include 
> anywhere.

It's in the sys/ subdirectory.



> Can anybody give me a hint?

You need to #include <sys/user.h> where you will find the complete
defintion of struct kinfo_proc.


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