List of all running processes

Question

How can I get a list of the names of all currently running processes? (In C/Objective-C on Mac OS X.)

Answer 1

I know you can do this on unix like systems. In the directory /proc are directories which stand for every process. In those directories you have a file called cmdline which hold the command line who started this process.

I don't know if this is the same on Mac OS X, but you can go further with that.

Answer 2

A simple google search yielded the following result for me :

http://jongampark.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/a-simple-objectie-c-class-for-checking-if-a-specific-process-is-running/

Notice this goes even further and adds a function to search for a running process.

Answer 3

Cocoa processes can be retrived from NSWorkspace [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] runningApplications]

For the entire process list (i.e. including non graphical) see Technical Q&A QA1123