On Mon, Aug 02 2021, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21 2021, Emily Shaffer wrote: > >> Git for Windows also gathers information about more than one generation >> of parent. In Linux further ancestry info can be gathered with procfs, >> but it's unwieldy to do so. > > Having read the win32 get_processes() implementation and read proc(5) I > don't get how it's unweildy to do so on Linux? Perhaps I'm missing some > special-case but this rather simple patch-on-top seems to do the job for > me. This includes the unrelated enum/switch/case change I suggested. > > I can submit it as a patch-on-top with SOB etc, but maybe there's some > subtle reason it won't work properly. It works for me, I get e.g.: Just a note[...]: > + strbuf_addf(&procfs_path, "/proc/%d/stat", pid); > + fp = fopen(procfs_path.buf, "r"); > + if (!fp) > + return; I think this is mostly ready, but is still clearly in POC state needing polishing, e.g. I didn't bother to close "fp" here, but a final patch to implement this approach should of course do that.
