treat cygwin like linux about shellingham HOT 6 CLOSED

I wonder if it is a good idea to use /proc whenever it is available. Solution is up in #5 that should work on both Linux and Cygwin, but I wonder if it would break systems such as FreeBSD. Do they all have compatible /proc? I’ll need to find out.

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It looks like the BSD4.4 children use /proc/$PID/status instead of /proc/$PID/stat.

old openbsd man page

modern freebsd manpage

Maybe write the module to:

try:
   proc()
except:
   ps()

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Urrgh! Yeah I guess I need to revise the logic. A try-except is a good idea (but probably not a bare one).

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Just handle the different structures of proc. There are only like 3 filesystems. It’s a finite space.

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Okay I think we have two. What’s the third /facepalm

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I decided to

1. Try /proc (detect if it is Linux and BSD styles)
2. If that fails, try ps
3. If ps also fails, raise an error

We can add compatibility to more uncommon formats when someone actually wants them.

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