/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */ /* * Utility routines. * * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen * * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball. */ #include "libbb.h" /* In Linux we have three ways to determine "process name": 1. /proc/PID/stat has "...(name)...", among other things. It's so-called "comm" field. 2. /proc/PID/cmdline's first NUL-terminated string. It's argv[0] from exec syscall. 3. /proc/PID/exe symlink. Points to the running executable file. kernel threads: comm: thread name cmdline: empty exe: executable comm: first 15 chars of base name (if executable is a symlink, then first 15 chars of symlink name are used) cmdline: argv[0] from exec syscall exe: points to executable (resolves symlink, unlike comm) script (an executable with #!/path/to/interpreter): comm: first 15 chars of script's base name (symlinks are not resolved) cmdline: /path/to/interpreter (symlinks are not resolved) (script name is in argv[1], args are pushed into argv[2] etc) exe: points to interpreter's executable (symlinks are resolved) If FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS=y (and more so if FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE=y), some commands started from busybox shell, xargs or find are started by execXXX("/proc/self/exe", applet_name, params....) and therefore comm field contains "exe". */ /* find_pid_by_name() * * Modified by Vladimir Oleynik for use with libbb/procps.c * This finds the pid of the specified process. * Currently, it's implemented by rummaging through * the proc filesystem. * * Returns a list of all matching PIDs * It is the caller's duty to free the returned pidlist. */ pid_t* find_pid_by_name(const char* procName) { pid_t* pidList; int i = 0; procps_status_t* p = NULL; pidList = xmalloc(sizeof(*pidList)); while ((p = procps_scan(p, PSSCAN_PID|PSSCAN_COMM|PSSCAN_ARGV0))) { if ( /* we require comm to match and to not be truncated */ /* in Linux, if comm is 15 chars, it may be a truncated * name, so we don't allow that to match */ (!p->comm[sizeof(p->comm)-2] && strcmp(p->comm, procName) == 0) /* or we require argv0 to match (essential for matching reexeced /proc/self/exe)*/ || (p->argv0 && strcmp(bb_basename(p->argv0), procName) == 0) /* TOOD: we can also try exe, do we want that? */ ) { pidList = xrealloc(pidList, sizeof(*pidList) * (i+2)); pidList[i++] = p->pid; } } pidList[i] = 0; return pidList; } pid_t *pidlist_reverse(pid_t *pidList) { int i = 0; while (pidList[i]) i++; if (--i >= 0) { pid_t k; int j; for (j = 0; i > j; i--, j++) { k = pidList[i]; pidList[i] = pidList[j]; pidList[j] = k; } } return pidList; }