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Friday June 14, 2002
07:02 PM
Now *that* is a lot of C code
I've been toying with the notion of creating a Ruby interface to the unix 'ps' command. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I decided to look at the source code for the Perl module Proc::ProcessTable to see what I could learn from it.
What did I discover? Dan Urist (the author) has put a *helluva* lot of effort into this module, especially considering that 'ps' just doesn't do that much (on the frontend, I mean). Much more effort than I originally thought. To be honest, I thought he was just parsing output using strictly Perl! There are a bunch of C source and header files, 2 each for 11 different platforms it looks like, plus the
Hopefully, I'll be able to borrow a lot from his source code. I also now remember that his module requires Storable and File::Find, though I can't remember why now.
Thank you Dan Urist!
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Oh, yeah (Score:2)
Proc::ProcessTable is easily the most intricate, system-dependent C-based module I've ever seen. I'm scared to death to look to see how it works. It looks like he basically had to code everything for each platform supported. I remember when I first looked at the module there were a lot of platforms only partially working. It's come a long way, and works great now everytime I need it (on x86 Linux and Sparc Solaris; I should try it on ppc Linux now that I have the chance).
I remember that the comp.unix.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:Oh, yeah (Score:2)
In the end, we had to ditch Proc::ProcessTable and parse output manually for our client-server app because of taint issues due to File::Find IIRC. Newer versions have an 'untaint' option, and I suggested that he allow this as an option in the constructor (where it would be passed to File::Find later) but he didn't seem to like that idea much.