procps

Rust reimplementation of the procps project

Provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").

Ongoing:

• free: Shows the amount of free and used memory in the system.
• pgrep: Searches for processes based on name and other attributes.
• pidof: Find the process ID of a running program.
• pidwait: Waits for a specific process to terminate.
• pkill: Kills processes based on name and other attributes.
• pmap: Displays the memory map of a process.
• ps: Displays information about active processes.
• pwdx: Shows the current working directory of a process.
• skill: Sends a signal to processes based on criteria like user, terminal, etc.
• slabtop: Displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time.
• snice: Changes the scheduling priority of a running process.
• sysctl: Read or write kernel parameters at run-time.
• tload: Prints a graphical representation of system load average to the terminal.
• top: Displays real-time information about system processes.
• vmstat: Reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, and CPU activity.
• w: Shows who is logged on and what they are doing.
• watch: Executes a program periodically, showing output fullscreen.

TODO:

• hugetop: Report hugepage usage of processes and the system as a whole.

Elsewhere:

• kill is already implemented in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
• uptime: Shows how long the system has been running, including load average. It is already implemented in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

Installation

Ensure you have Rust installed on your system. You can install Rust through rustup.

Clone the repository and build the project using Cargo:

git clone https://github.com/uutils/procps.git
cd procps
cargo build --release
cargo run --release

License

procps is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details