how to integrate two different processes together using two different programs in c language

Question

create two process which communicate using shared memory segment. The first process finds list of all processes on the system with their name, process id, number of files opened and total time running and creates a linked list containing this data about every process running in the shared memory. The second process reads this linked list and formats in html and saves it in a file. this is done by the process every half an hour.

please give the code of both the processes separately. and also tell how these programs will communicate.

Answer 1

Here the source for a program that can get you every process on the machine, including it's PID and executable path.

I needed it for an aimbot, to get the PID of a process. I have previously posted it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=657097

You should be able to transform it to output every process and its name in no time.

The total time running you can read from:
/proc/<pid>/stat The format of /proc/pid/stat is defined in the kernel sources in fs/proc/array.c

And the number of open files from here:
/proc/[pid]/fd then do a readlink on every number in this directory.

Some more info here:
http://www.rt-embedded.com/blog/archives/process-information-in-the-proc-filesystem/

A linked list you can create very simply with std::list

I don't know about the shared memory, but here's a tutorial:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node27.html
and when you can figure that out, please post it here, I'd be interested.

The converting to HTML you please do yourself, it's so dead simple, if you can't use fprintf, you don't belong into the computer business.

And please add me to your thanks list for your homework :-))

#ifndef __cplusplus
    #define _GNU_SOURCE
#endif

#include <unistd.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/types.h> // for opendir(), readdir(), closedir()
#include <sys/stat.h> // for stat()

#ifdef __cplusplus
    #include <iostream>
    #include <cstdlib>
    #include <cstring>
    #include <cstdarg>
#else
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <stdarg.h>
#endif


#define PROC_DIRECTORY "/proc/"
#define CASE_SENSITIVE    1
#define CASE_INSENSITIVE  0
#define EXACT_MATCH       1
#define INEXACT_MATCH     0


int IsNumeric(const char* ccharptr_CharacterList)
{
    for ( ; *ccharptr_CharacterList; ccharptr_CharacterList++)
        if (*ccharptr_CharacterList < '0' || *ccharptr_CharacterList > '9')
            return 0; // false
    return 1; // true
}


int strcmp_Wrapper(const char *s1, const char *s2, int intCaseSensitive)
{
    if (intCaseSensitive)
        return !strcmp(s1, s2);
    else
        return !strcasecmp(s1, s2);
}

int strstr_Wrapper(const char* haystack, const char* needle, int intCaseSensitive)
{
    if (intCaseSensitive)
        return (int) strstr(haystack, needle);
    else
        return (int) strcasestr(haystack, needle);
}


#ifdef __cplusplus
pid_t GetPIDbyName(const char* cchrptr_ProcessName, int intCaseSensitiveness, int intExactMatch)
#else
pid_t GetPIDbyName_implements(const char* cchrptr_ProcessName, int intCaseSensitiveness, int intExactMatch)
#endif
{
    char chrarry_CommandLinePath[100]  ;
    char chrarry_NameOfProcess[300]  ;
    char* chrptr_StringToCompare = NULL ;
    pid_t pid_ProcessIdentifier = (pid_t) -1 ;
    struct dirent* de_DirEntity = NULL ;
    DIR* dir_proc = NULL ;

    int (*CompareFunction) (const char*, const char*, int) ;

    if (intExactMatch)
        CompareFunction = &strcmp_Wrapper;
    else
        CompareFunction = &strstr_Wrapper;


    dir_proc = opendir(PROC_DIRECTORY) ;
    if (dir_proc == NULL)
    {
        perror("Couldn't open the " PROC_DIRECTORY " directory") ;
        return (pid_t) -2 ;
    }

    // Loop while not NULL
    while ( (de_DirEntity = readdir(dir_proc)) )
    {
        if (de_DirEntity->d_type == DT_DIR)
        {
            if (IsNumeric(de_DirEntity->d_name))
            {
                strcpy(chrarry_CommandLinePath, PROC_DIRECTORY) ;
                strcat(chrarry_CommandLinePath, de_DirEntity->d_name) ;
                strcat(chrarry_CommandLinePath, "/cmdline") ;
                FILE* fd_CmdLineFile = fopen (chrarry_CommandLinePath, "rt") ;  // open the file for reading text
                if (fd_CmdLineFile)
                {
                    fscanf(fd_CmdLineFile, "%s", chrarry_NameOfProcess) ; // read from /proc/<NR>/cmdline
                    fclose(fd_CmdLineFile);  // close the file prior to exiting the routine

                    if (strrchr(chrarry_NameOfProcess, '/'))
                        chrptr_StringToCompare = strrchr(chrarry_NameOfProcess, '/') +1 ;
                    else
                        chrptr_StringToCompare = chrarry_NameOfProcess ;

                    //printf("Process name: %s\n", chrarry_NameOfProcess);
                    //printf("Pure Process name: %s\n", chrptr_StringToCompare );

                    if ( CompareFunction(chrptr_StringToCompare, cchrptr_ProcessName, intCaseSensitiveness) )
                    {
                        pid_ProcessIdentifier = (pid_t) atoi(de_DirEntity->d_name) ;
                        closedir(dir_proc) ;
                        return pid_ProcessIdentifier ;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    closedir(dir_proc) ;
    return pid_ProcessIdentifier ;
}

#ifdef __cplusplus
    pid_t GetPIDbyName(const char* cchrptr_ProcessName)
    {
        return GetPIDbyName(cchrptr_ProcessName, CASE_INSENSITIVE, EXACT_MATCH) ;
    }
#else
    // C cannot overload functions - fixed
    pid_t GetPIDbyName_Wrapper(const char* cchrptr_ProcessName, ... )
    {
        int intTempArgument ;
        int intInputArguments[2] ;
        // intInputArguments[0] = 0 ;
        // intInputArguments[1] = 0 ;
        memset(intInputArguments, 0, sizeof(intInputArguments) ) ;
        int intInputIndex ;
        va_list argptr;

        va_start( argptr, cchrptr_ProcessName );
            for (intInputIndex = 0;  (intTempArgument = va_arg( argptr, int )) != 15; ++intInputIndex)
            {
                intInputArguments[intInputIndex] = intTempArgument ;
            }
        va_end( argptr );
        return GetPIDbyName_implements(cchrptr_ProcessName, intInputArguments[0], intInputArguments[1]);
    }

    #define GetPIDbyName(ProcessName,...) GetPIDbyName_Wrapper(ProcessName, ##__VA_ARGS__, (int) 15)

#endif

int main()
{
    pid_t pid = GetPIDbyName("bash") ; // If -1 = not found, if -2 = proc fs access error
    printf("PID %d\n", pid);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS ;
}